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Download Radio Show The 10th of July show featured the second part of a conversation with Sue Karl of the USGS. In this part, we talked about fossils (and why they seem to be unusual around Sitka despite the marine sediment origins of so much of the rock here) as well as the volcanism of … Read more

Download Radio Show The 26th of June show featured the first part of a conversation with Sue Karl of the USGS. She was in town to give a talk on the geology of Baranof Island as part of the Natural History Seminar series. She began her study of the geology of Baranof Island doing graduate … Read more

Download Radio Show The 12th of June show featured a conversation with Allison Nelson, who recently had a paper published about breeding areas of Hermit Thrushes that winter in the San Francisco Bay area. Her research, and the discovery that some of the thrushes wintering there were nesting in Southeast Alaska was the inspiration for … Read more

Download Radio Show The 29th of May show featured a conversation with Karen Blejwas, of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She has been coordinating a project involving citizens monitoring bat activity in several communities around Southeast Alaska. We talked about some of what is known (and not known) about bats and their biology, … Read more

Download Radio Show The 15th of May show featured a conversation with Jennifer Purcell from Western Washington University. She has studied jellyfish around the world and was in town as part of the Scientist in Residence Fellowship program at the Sitka Sound Science Center. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please … Read more

Download Radio Show The 1st of May show featured a review of common bird songs from the Sitka area. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose.