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Alaska Voices
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Recording and sharing Alaska's place-based stories.
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Season 2 comes to an end
Feb 1600:09:53Tap to summarize"To facilitate that space, you then see how people leave in a really good mood after having connected with a person."
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The work of being ourselves: Following the tides from Yakutat to Kasaan
Feb 900:23:45Tap to summarize"Could you even imagine if you could try to outgive me? ʼI’m going to give better than you.ʼ What kind of world would we live in?" -George Nix
Transcribe →Paths to the Arctic converge in coproduction
Feb 200:11:05Tap to summarize"A lot of what I’ve learned is the academic history of exploitation of communities in the Arctic. Iʼm trying to teach myself as much as I can such that when I’m in a position that I am leading a project, that I have input to make sure that things are done correctly" -Margaret Anamaq Rudolf
Transcribe →Translating and curating climate data for everyday use
Jan 2600:11:16Tap to summarize"I would encourage people to not despair in this prospect of an unknowable climate future. We have tools, good tools, to get an idea of what might be coming." -Charlie Parr
Transcribe →Wildfire wisdom under cathedral trees
Jan 2000:09:18Tap to summarize"We call them our cathedral trees, I don’t think they grew up to have this much wind, so you hear them snapping during wind events, too. And it’s warmer. It’s much warmer. We don’t have those 40 below for a week at a time anymore." -Mary Burtness
Transcribe →Field log: A full career of fundamental boreal forestry
Jan 1200:13:20Tap to summarize"I remember his frustration as budgets were being cut. Now most of us experienced a mixture of apprehension and anger. The anger from the injustice of it and apprehension from how is this going to affect what matters to me? Not just my job, although that’s there, but also the things that I’m doing that I think are important And as near as I could tell, he experienced only anger. He was pissed." - Dave Valentine
Transcribe →Deciphering the many facets of weather
Jan 500:09:23Tap to summarize"Come here and find out that million-acre years are pretty common and they’re dealt as extreme years, but in more recent years, you wind up seeing more and more million acres burned." -Jacob Coffey
Transcribe →Partnering with communities for reciprocal research
Dec 2900:11:43Tap to summarize"There’s this history of research happening, disregarding those pieces, and I’m really excited about this as a mechanism to shine a light on that, and ask those questions: does this work really need to be done? Are you willing to invest in the relationships with the community to ensure that your work is meaningful to the people who live here, and if not, then maybe we need to think twice about it." -Lauren Bell
Transcribe →Supercomputer as stepping stone
Dec 2200:09:04Tap to summarize"I was always interested in technology, ever since I was a little kid. I remember the first computer my dad bought us was an old Compaq and he thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread." -Bob Torgerson
Transcribe →Tracking bear dens with dogs and drones
Dec 1600:09:22Tap to summarize" It's a working dog that's here to help keep you safe. And no one wants to pet your drone, you know? But they might want to pet your dog." -Nils Pedersen
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