LIA: Hi, Iʼm Lia Ferguson from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Weʼre about to launch season 2 of the Alaska Voices podcast, made possible by the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center.

Alaska Voices is a place where community members, friends, and scientists can share stories and place-based knowledge in order to build a better tomorrow for Alaskans and the world.

We canʼt wait to connect you with more conversations about how people across the state are navigating their changing environment.

MARGARET: I always wanted to be a scientist, and I really wanted to help people with large problems, like complex large problems.
JACOB: That’s the one thing that surprised me is just how much of a connection people can tie to experiences with weather or just weather as a whole.
MARY: I don’t know quite where the fire is but I kind of can see the smoke and there’s a trooper there. And then I watched a firetruck go into our driveway.
CRAIG: Eventually it reached a point where aurora activity was so high that it could be seen from Montana and stuff and it got linked from the front page of CNN. And then our server started melting.
NILS: He was using his dogs to find polar bear dens in the North Slope oil field. You could find the dens reliably and then set up a mile buffer zone around a known polar bear den.
CHRIS: I think by working so closely with practitioners outside the academic environment, it might help counteract the influence of the doubts, the mistrust in science, because you do need to connect with people.
LIA: "New episodes on Mondays starting December 1, wherever you get your podcasts. More information at alaskavoice.org.