All Episodes
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.”
Donning a flag for graduation
“If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed.”
Expanding 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.”
Fifty 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.”
Making connections with neighbors and ancestors
“It’s so overwhelming. The scope of problems we face in our communities, let alone climate change on an international or world level problems, sanitation issues, landfill issues”
Breaking 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.”
The professional life
“I feel that a lot of younger people really don’t want to be faculty and don’t want to be scientists because they feel very fed-up with the system. And I am really worried about that.”