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02/08/22 • 47 min
Vladimir Romanovsky is retiring after 30 years of studying permafrost at UAF's Geophysical Institute. He enters professor emeritus status while seeing changes in Alaska's frozen ground he never anticipated when scientists spoke of a new ice age in the 1970s. Romanovsky talks about why these discoveries of rapidly thawing ground are hard on roads and houses built over permafrost — frozen ground that has survived the heat of two summers — but are fascinating to him as a researcher. Part 1 of 2.
Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest
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04/12/22 • 28 min
At the height of summer in 2021, Ned accompanied University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist Ben Gaglioti to a ghost forest a glacier had run over in Southeast Alaska. Ned and Ben spent about two weeks near La Perouse Glacier, the one that ran over the trees during a cold period called the Little Ice Age. The story begins with the pair standing on a lonely beach about 100 miles south of Yakutat after a bush pilot dropped them off. (28:10)
Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers
Alaska Science Pod
12/07/21 • 36 min
Hannah Myers is a graduate student and a killer whale linguist. She has listened to hundreds of underwater recordings from which she can identify distinct families of whales. Myers and other researchers found that killer whales hang offshore of the Gulf of Alaska even during winter, when salmon are no longer headed for their birth streams.
Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fish
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10/05/21 • 37 min
Randy Brown is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Fairbanks. For years, he lived off the land in Alaska on a tributary of the upper Yukon River. In this episode, Randy describes the detective work he and others used to learn more about a tasty Alaska fish, the Bering cisco. (37 minutes)
03/01/22 • 39 min
Permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky, professor emeritus at the Geophysical Institute, reflects on his career and surprising changes to Alaska's permafrost during his 30-year career. This episode is part 2/2 of a conversation with Romanovsky starting in the previous episode . (38:51)
01/03/22 • 35 min
Bird biologist Dan Ruthrauff of the USGS Science Center in Anchorage describes the bar-tailed godwit, a bird that every fall flies from Alaska to New Zealand without stopping. That’s a week to nine days straight in the air!
Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina Glacier
Alaska Science Pod
11/02/21 • 29 min
Martin Truffer is a glaciologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He reports that the Malaspina Glacier is more than three thousand feet deep in some places, describes how his research group is monitoring its progress and speculates about future changes to this massive glacier in Southcentral Alaska. (29 minutes)
Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the institute
Alaska Science Pod
09/14/21 • 48 min
Roger Smith is a space physicist who moved to Alaska from London in the 80s. He became the director of the Geophysical Institute in 2000. Roger describes what the early days at the GI were like and why the institute has endured for 75 years. (47 minutes)
Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee Zirnheld
Alaska Science Pod
07/07/21 • 26 min
Sherry Simpson, one of the best descriptive writers in Alaska — and possibly the world — died in 2020 of a brain tumor. Science writer Ned Rozell worked with Sherry at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where he soon noticed that no one could write quite like her. Here, Lee Zirnheld of Fairbanks, Alaska, reads aloud Sherry’s essay, Telling Raven Stories. (25 minutes)
Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, Alaska
Alaska Science Pod
06/02/21 • 29 min
In this episode, seismologist Carl Tape transforms into both historian and detective to investigate the strongest earthquake on the planet in the year 1900, somewhere near Kodiak, Alaska. (30 minutes)
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FAQ
How many episodes does Alaska Science Pod have?
Alaska Science Pod currently has 11 episodes available.
What topics does Alaska Science Pod cover?
The podcast is about Research, Earth Sciences, Nature, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Alaska Science Pod?
The episode title 'Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Alaska Science Pod?
The average episode length on Alaska Science Pod is 36 minutes.
How often are episodes of Alaska Science Pod released?
Episodes of Alaska Science Pod are typically released every 34 days, 13 hours.
When was the first episode of Alaska Science Pod?
The first episode of Alaska Science Pod was released on May 4, 2021.
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