"I've seen an artistry come out of Alaska, it has changed, the way in which we've articulated in which our resources are important to us and how we've done that through art, and other type of expression, that makes me really hopeful." - Davin

Weathering Winter Rainstorms

May 17th, 2021 8m 13s

“An actual inch of rain between November and March had only happened one other time in the climate record.” - Eric Stevens

When the ice dam fails

May 10th, 2021 9m 31s

“We landed and when we landed the basin was finishing draining. So the glacier ice where we landed was still settling and cracking, it was very disconcerting.” - Eran Hood

Lightning, wildfires, and Martian ice

May 3rd, 2021 9m 40s

“We asked them if they could tailor their models from the Martian landscape to Earth permafrost landscapes and from there we developed some early calculations of impacts of climate change on permafrost.” - Cathy Wilson

What faces tomorrow’s climate scientists

Apr 26th, 2021 8m 52s

“Once we destroy those natural areas it's very difficult to get them back.” - Emily Fort

Reaching passerby through poetry

Apr 19th, 2021 9m 17s

“Creating doesn't have to be a scary thing where you have to go into your special corner and turn a light on and turn the world off and think about how awful life is.” - Rebecca Lawhorne

Keeping up with community climate concerns

Apr 12th, 2021 10m 2s

“Droughts and floods I think are the particular climate events that I think we'd be most concerned about.” - John Walsh

Land stewardship in a changing world

Apr 5th, 2021 9m 37s

“Venetie at one time in the 40s and 50s was a major gardening center and they would trade potatoes and carrots, things like that, they would go down and trade for salmon on the Yukon and supply vegetables and such for the steam boats.” - Lance

Revisiting your hometown's history

Mar 29th, 2021 8m 9s

“I'd spent all of my time learning about cultures around the world and I didn't know anything about the cultures of my own state or the area that I lived in.” - Davin Holen

Overcoming Failure

Mar 22nd, 2021 8m 24s

“And I think positive self talk is the kindest thing you can do to yourself. Being able to say 'It's OK, it takes time.' You know what you need to do, so why not start?” - Dina Abdel-Fattah

Mentors as both friends and role models

Mar 15th, 2021 9m 19s

“If all my legacy is that I have produced one scientist, that's enough for me.” - Elena Sparrow

Trailer

2021 Spring season of Alaska Voices starts next week

Mar 8th, 2021 1m 21s

Alaska Voices is back March 15 with new episodes. Project leads Jessie Robertson and Bob Bolton also give a quick update on future Alaska Voices recordings.

Bonus

Alaska Voices Update

Oct 15th, 2020 55s

The first season of Alaska Voices is coming to a close. Stay tuned for updates on future developments as we explore what comes next for the project. Thank you to our contributors, organizers, and listeners for all of your support.

Learning as a scientist when to say you don't know

Oct 1st, 2020 7m 55s

"I was always the kid getting outside and getting lost and grimy and playing with frogs and cutting trees."

Designing accessible research for rural communities

Sep 28th, 2020 8m 15s

"I think that the first thing that agencies have to acknowledge is there's an extreme power imbalance between what value we put on scientific knowledge and what value we put on local knowledge."

Collaborating with agencies, communities

Sep 24th, 2020 8m 4s

“I'm more and more impatient with the slow pace of science and feel like at the rate the world is changing these days, we really need to make progress.”

Partnerships

Sep 21st, 2020 10m 37s

"As a leader you're not there to tell people what to do. You're there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better."

Finding nature and ourselves in cities

Sep 17th, 2020 8m 13s

“I'm definitely interested in expanding access to nature because I do think it's really important for mental health and spirituality and physical health.”

Making space for varied voices

Sep 14th, 2020 7m 53s

“It's easy to be satisfied with incremental change when the incremental change is not affecting you.”

Leveling the ivory tower

Sep 10th, 2020 7m 14s

“As a mentor it's important for me to advocate for my students, especially as undergraduates you really feel like you're at the bottom and you have no power.”

Building bridges with sea ice

Sep 7th, 2020 8m 13s

“I think as humans, especially when it's in our backyard, we want to feel like we have a process, that we have ownership in that, and we have agency to make our voices heard.”

Loud, critical, ambitious: sexism in science

Sep 3rd, 2020 9m

" I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I'm called in the office."

Grad school files

Aug 31st, 2020 6m 13s

"I thought environmental science was a really good way to connect people's problems and Earth's problems and learn about the physical world yet the social science world, too."

Engineering healthy early-career boundaries

Aug 27th, 2020 8m 45s

“A lot of the male engineers were invited to go out golfing, and shooting, and I was never invited to do those things even though I was also an engineer and actually a pretty great shot.”

Uneven ground: permafrost thaw and burnout

Aug 24th, 2020 8m 30s

“The more positive side of people's brains would say oh, no, no, no, these are learning opportunities or whatever, but at some point it's actually just failure.”