“Antarctica, it's fascinating from the scientific point of view, but you don't have a community that depends on the sea ice in Antarctica.”

"If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed."

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

"If the public who isn't a scientist knows what we do and why, then we've done good in education."

"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."

"It's so overwhelming. The scope of problems we face in our communities, let alone climate change on an international or world level problems, sanitation issues, landfill issues"

"I told him we have a sand dune that's erupting in the middle of our airstrip and there was a tribal member who got stuck in a sinkhole."

"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."

"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.'"

"We currently are the world leader in Arctic research. No other university, and really no other federal government around the world, does more research on the Arctic than University of Alaska Fairbanks."