Alaska Voices

"Being able to move on and feeling supported by your superiors, takes away so much of the trauma that women often experience when they try to report."

"I think the more that we talk about our differences and our full stories and how they've informed where we're at, that is how we make the community stronger for whatever we face."

"The person that owned that had no requirement to say hey there's a big ice lens under here, don't build your house there."

"Since our existence is glued together by stories and songs and language, all of our laws and everything, I have a certain way of looking at stories that the next generation won't be able to accommodate."

"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."

"When you get out to the real world the skills that you need are going to be really varied. I think that's helpful for a new generation of scientists, be aware that there's not one way to do it."

“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."