Over the weekend, there was a special showing of "Till" and afterward, a community discussion. We caught up with Cal Williams who is the same age as Emmett Till would have been, and lived in the same part of the country.

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Since 1999, many people were not able to donate blood because of the risk of mad cow disease. That restriction has recently been lifted. In this edition of In Depth Alaska, Tracy Sinclare talks with Bob Scanlon from the Blood Bank of Alaska about why the restriction was lifted and what to do next.

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In this edition of In Depth Alaska, we talk with Ronni Grapenthin, associate professor of Geodesy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, about what is happening beneath Mount Edgecumbe and how the now "active" volcano is being monitored.

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In this edition of In Depth Alaska, we talk with Ryan Buchholdt about being the UAA Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services and what he sees as the future for UAA.

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Climatologists and meteorologists are quite confident that we're headed into another La Nina winter. This will be the third La Nina year in a row. Tracy Sinclare sat down with Climate Specialist Rick Thoman to talk about what it means for Alaska and how a tiny section of the Pacific Ocean predicts what might happen thousands of miles away.

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Jason Moan, Forest Health Program Manager with the Alaska Division of Forest and Fire Protection, talks about the current outbreak, the aerial surveillance from this summer and what homeowners should do about an infected tree and when should they do it.

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Andrew Wentworth with the University of Alaska-Faribanks Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration has spent the past three summers in Canada, monitoring the Right Whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We talk to him about the mission and the technology being used to protect this endangered species.

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Michaela Goade is an author/illustrator from Southeast Alaska and she has a new book out, Berry Song. Tracy Sinclare sat down with Michaela to talk about the book and why these stories are so important.

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In this week's In Depth Alaska, we talk with Brooke Merrell, the new superintendent of Denali National Park and Preserve. We discussed plans for expanding the transportation options in the park, when the road through Polychrome Pass will be accessible again and, of course, the puppy cam.

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In this week's In Depth Alaska, Tracy Sinclare speaks with Research Assistant Professor Tobias Schwoerer about how birders impact Alaska's economy and how Alaskans might expand this niche market.

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