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Science writer Ned Rozell has accompanied researchers all over Alaska and given firsthand accounts of discoveries, triumphs and pitfalls of field work conducted in the Last Frontier. Through in-depth ... more
FAQs about Alaska Science Pod:How many episodes does Alaska Science Pod have?The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
April 12, 2022Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost ForestAt the height of summer in 2021, Ned accompanied University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist Ben Gaglioti to a ghost forest a glacier had run over in Southeast Alaska. Ned and Ben spent about two weeks near La Perouse Glacier, the one that ran over the trees during a cold period called the Little Ice Age. The story begins with the pair standing on a lonely beach about 100 miles south of Yakutat after a bush pilot dropped them off. (28:10)...more29minPlay
March 01, 2022Ep. 10: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 2/2Permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky, professor emeritus at the Geophysical Institute, reflects on his career and surprising changes to Alaska's permafrost during his 30-year career. This episode is part 2/2 of a conversation with Romanovsky starting in the previous episode . (38:51)...more40minPlay
February 08, 2022Ep. 9: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 1/2Vladimir Romanovsky is retiring after 30 years of studying permafrost at UAF's Geophysical Institute. He enters professor emeritus status while seeing changes in Alaska's frozen ground he never anticipated when scientists spoke of a new ice age in the 1970s. Romanovsky talks about why these discoveries of rapidly thawing ground are hard on roads and houses built over permafrost — frozen ground that has survived the heat of two summers — but are fascinating to him as a researcher. Part 1 of 2....more48minPlay
January 03, 2022Ep. 8: From Alaska to New Zealand, the bar-tailed godwit with Dan RuthrauffBird biologist Dan Ruthrauff of the USGS Science Center in Anchorage describes the bar-tailed godwit, a bird that every fall flies from Alaska to New Zealand without stopping. That’s a week to nine days straight in the air!...more36minPlay
December 07, 2021Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah MyersHannah Myers is a graduate student and a killer whale linguist. She has listened to hundreds of underwater recordings from which she can identify distinct families of whales. Myers and other researchers found that killer whales hang offshore of the Gulf of Alaska even during winter, when salmon are no longer headed for their birth streams....more36minPlay
November 02, 2021Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina GlacierMartin Truffer is a glaciologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He reports that the Malaspina Glacier is more than three thousand feet deep in some places, describes how his research group is monitoring its progress and speculates about future changes to this massive glacier in Southcentral Alaska. (29 minutes)...more30minPlay
October 05, 2021Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fishRandy Brown is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Fairbanks. For years, he lived off the land in Alaska on a tributary of the upper Yukon River. In this episode, Randy describes the detective work he and others used to learn more about a tasty Alaska fish, the Bering cisco. (37 minutes)...more38minPlay
September 14, 2021Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the instituteRoger Smith is a space physicist who moved to Alaska from London in the 80s. He became the director of the Geophysical Institute in 2000. Roger describes what the early days at the GI were like and why the institute has endured for 75 years. (47 minutes)...more49minPlay
July 07, 2021Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee ZirnheldSherry Simpson, one of the best descriptive writers in Alaska — and possibly the world — died in 2020 of a brain tumor. Science writer Ned Rozell worked with Sherry at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where he soon noticed that no one could write quite like her. Here, Lee Zirnheld of Fairbanks, Alaska, reads aloud Sherry’s essay, Telling Raven Stories. (25 minutes)...more27minPlay
June 02, 2021Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, AlaskaIn this episode, seismologist Carl Tape transforms into both historian and detective to investigate the strongest earthquake on the planet in the year 1900, somewhere near Kodiak, Alaska. (30 minutes)...more30minPlay
FAQs about Alaska Science Pod:How many episodes does Alaska Science Pod have?The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.