Season 2 comes to an end

A woman and man smile while crouching inside a yellow Arctic Oven tent. The woman holds an Alaska Voices poster.

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

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Paths to the Arctic converge in coproduction

A Native Alaskan woman and and a man with dark hair smile at the camera in front of a photshopped background of mountains.

“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

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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

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Field log: A full career of fundamental boreal forestry

A woman and man in smile in a selfie in front of a photoshopped background of blueberry bushes and mountains int he distance.

“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

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Deciphering the many facets of weather

Two young adults smile in front of a photoshopped background of a road leading to Denali.

“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

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Partnering with communities for reciprocal research

Two women smile in front of a photoshopped background of a Sitka marina.

“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

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Supercomputer as stepping stone

Two men wearing similar glasses and t-shirts smile in front of a photoshopped background of the Mount Katmai volcano.

“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

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