Climate change
Keeping up with community climate concerns
“Droughts and floods I think are the particular climate events that I think we’d be most concerned about.” – John Walsh
Read MoreLand stewardship in a changing world
“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 Whitwell
Read MoreLearning as a scientist when to say “I don’t know”
“I was always the kid getting outside and getting lost and grimy and playing with frogs and cutting trees.”
Read MoreDesigning accessible research for rural communities
“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.”
Read MoreGrad school files
“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.”
Read MoreUneven ground: permafrost thaw and burnout
“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.”
Read MoreStepping off the plane to roaring Northern fur seals
“It’s sometimes hard to see a trend because we’re living in the moment of all the ups and downs. But the sea ice is something that is really dramatic.”
Read MoreFireside chat
“The key for us is being able to justify and ground decisions in good science.”
Read MoreExpanding scientific literacy beyond the research realm
“If the public who isn’t a scientist knows what we do and why, then we’ve done good in education.”
Read MoreFifty years of Arctic change
“When you lose half of your sea ice volume, in fact we’ve lost more than half of the volume in such a short period of time, that’s something that I don’t think people really anticipated.”
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