"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."

"We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat."

"I started working with my high school teacher who was very, very dedicated to helping me reach this goal. She used to drive me to the university where I did the research after school everyday."

"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?"

"If you shoot a bear in self defense you have to take the hide and the paws and the head with you and we still had maybe two or so more weeks of floating this river."