Anchorage – Alaska Voices

Designing accessible research for rural communities

September 28, 2020

Erica, a young woman with short brown hair, and Ryan, a man with a goatee and glasses, smile in front of an orange sunset sky.

“I think that the first thing that agencies have to acknowledge is there’s an extreme power imbalance between what value we put on scientific knowledge and what value we put on local knowledge.”

A day in the life of a university scientist

June 29, 2020

Audrey and Shannon, two women who look similar with dark brown hair have their arms around eachother in front of snowy trees.

“There’s a culture here of women, working moms, who are wanting to, outdoing each other, like, ‘Well I put the baby down at 8 but I still had to stay up until 2 in the morning to finish this grant.'”

Bringing global experiences back home

June 22, 2020

Krista, a woman with pulled-back dark hair, and Arlo, a man with two lip piercings wearing a beanie, smile in front of a blueberry bush background.

“We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat.”

Father-daughter fieldwork

April 30, 2020

Jeremy and his daughter Merridy smile in front of a bright snowy sunset.

“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.”