All Episodes

Season 2 comes to an end

February 16, 2026

“To facilitate that space, you then see how people leave in a really good mood after having connected with a person.”

The work of being ourselves: Following the tides from Yakutat to Kasaan

February 9, 2026

“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

Paths to the Arctic converge in coproduction

February 2, 2026

“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

Translating and curating climate data for everyday use

January 26, 2026

“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

January 20, 2026

“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

Field log: A full career of fundamental boreal forestry

January 12, 2026

“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

Deciphering the many facets of weather

January 5, 2026

“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

Partnering with communities for reciprocal research

December 29, 2025

“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