Field work
Navigating oceans and grad school
“Antarctica, it’s fascinating from the scientific point of view, but you don’t have a community that depends on the sea ice in Antarctica.”
Read MoreFireside chat
“The key for us is being able to justify and ground decisions in good science.”
Read MoreBreaking the ice with a steam bath in rural Alaska
“I told him we have a sand dune that’s erupting in the middle of our airstrip and there was a tribal member who got stuck in a sinkhole.”
Read MoreCaribou and bear before breakfast
“If you shoot a bear in self defense you have to take the hide and the paws and the head with you and we still had maybe two or so more weeks of floating this river.”
Read MoreAn average field season, other than meeting the spouse
“Their formal role in this is to make sure I don’t die and my role is to make sure they experience a different part of the world that they wouldn’t get to otherwise.”
Read MoreOff-road adventures in northern Alaska
“My path now is to be a leader and to make conditions such that I’m encouraging other people such as yourself have those sorts of adventures”
Read MoreLessons on long drives and muddy trails
“I want to be one of those ladies that’s dirty every day and slugging through places without trails.”
Read MoreFather-daughter fieldwork
“Dad had been doing fieldwork for 17 years and never seen a wolverine. On my first trip out there, bam, not one but two wolverines in the wild.”
Read MoreWelcoming a newborn just before an avalanche cuts power
“So it’s been a challenge just trying to get out and teach students about what’s going on with the snow pack when it doesn’t really exist.”
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