Loud, critical, ambitious: sexism in science

Jessica and Jessie smile in front of a bed of lichen and leaves.

” I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I’m called in the office.”

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Grad school files

Rachel and Jill smile in front of an aerial view of a forest.

“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.”

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Fireside chat

Kent and Scott smile in front of a snoy mountain.

“The key for us is being able to justify and ground decisions in good science.”

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The professional life

Uma an Peter smile at the camera in front of Denali.

“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.”

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Growing a collaboration

Jessie wears a "Northern Ecohydrology" sweatshirt, and Bob wears a "Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay" T-shirt.

“I think what I’ve been focusing on is how can we take something that can spill out of people in such a negative way and make it neutral?”

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Keeping an eye on the land

Lance and Ryan smile in front of a glacier calving front.

“Done a little bit of everything you can imagine, from recycling pop cans to fuel spill response and contaminated site cleanups and brownfields, the whole gamut of things we can run in to in the villages.”

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Father-daughter fieldwork

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.”

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