ice shelf – 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.”

Sounding board on the Antarctic ice sheet

August 20, 2020

Tow women lean their heads together in front of a blue iceberg.

“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.”

Stepping off the plane to roaring Northern fur seals

August 3, 2020

Jim and Eric smile in front of a Denali.

“It’s sometimes hard to see a trend because we’re living in the moment of all the ups and downs. But the sea ice is something that is really dramatic.”

Fifty years of Arctic change

July 13, 2020

John and Larry, two men with glasses smile in front of a background with close-up snow crystals.

“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.”