All Episodes
Grad 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.”
Engineering healthy early-career boundaries
“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
“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.”
Sounding board on the Antarctic ice sheet
“So once I found this role as a peacemaker, I was like, OK, this is my role on the team. It’s not so much science, it’s more communication.”
Another day at work
“Being able to move on and feeling supported by your superiors, takes away so much of the trauma that women often experience when they try to report.”
Arctic diplomacy and Native Movement
“I think the more that we talk about our differences and our full stories and how they’ve informed where we’re at, that is how we make the community stronger for whatever we face.”
Surveying Alaska after World War II
“The person that owned that had no requirement to say hey there’s a big ice lens under here, don’t build your house there.”
Storytelling as a conduit of culture
“Since our existence is glued together by stories and songs and language, all of our laws and everything, I have a certain way of looking at stories that the next generation won’t be able to accommodate.”