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Download Radio Show The September 12th show featured a conversation with Brian Buma, we spoke about his work on cedar decline, landslides, and some of the challenges understanding ecological processes over broad distances and long time scales. Learn more about his work at brianbuma.com His new book Atlas for a Changing Climate will be available … Read more

Download Radio Show The August 29th show featured a conversation with John Chapman, a marine biologist who focuses on marine invertebrates and invasive biology. In town surveying blue mud shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) to look for presence of an invasive parasitic isopod, Orthione griffenis. Thought to have been brought across the Pacific from Asian in ballast … Read more

Download Radio Show The August 15th show featured a conversation with Elizabeth Graham, entomologist with the Forest Service working out of the Southeast Field Office in Juneau. We spoke about the current western black-headed budworm defoliator outbreak affecting many places in Southeast Alaska, and how it fits into a pattern of prior outbreaks in the … Read more

Download Radio Show The August 1st show featured a conversation with Kaeli Swift, who studies corvid behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on and passion for crows. This conversation was originally recorded and aired in September 2019. You can learn more about Kaeli’s work on her site Corvid Research or follow her @corvidresearch on … Read more

Download Radio Show The July 18th show featured a conversation with Quaternary geologist Alia Lesnek. We spoke about her work investigating the timing of glacial retreat in Southeast Alaska, as well what raised marine clam beds tell us about ancient sea levels, and her recent experience in Sitka looking at ash and basalt from the … Read more

Download Radio Show The July 4th show featured a conversation with Matt Muir, who I know as an avid iNaturalist user. He lives in Anchorage and was visiting Sitka with his family to get a taste of Southeast Alaska (scheduling the trip in part to take advantage of a low tide series). Among other things, … Read more