Climate change
Translating and curating climate data for everyday use
“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
Wildfire wisdom under cathedral trees
“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
Deciphering the many facets of weather
“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
Read MoreSupercomputer as stepping stone
“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
Weathering winter rainstorms
“An actual inch of rain between November and March had only happened one other time in the climate record.” – Eric Stevens
Read MoreWhat faces tomorrow’s climate scientists
“Once we destroy those natural areas it’s very difficult to get them back.” – Emily Fort
Read MoreKeeping 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.”
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