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Alaska Science Pod

Science writer Ned Rozell has accompanied researchers all over Alaska and given firsthand accounts of discoveries, triumphs and pitfalls of field work conducted in the Last Frontier. Through in-depth ... Read more

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Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest

Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest

At the height of summer in 2021, Ned accompanied University of Alaska Fairbanks ecologist Ben Gaglioti to a ghost forest... Read more

12 Apr 2022

28mins

Ranked #2

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Ep. 10: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 2/2

Ep. 10: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 2/2

Permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky, professor emeritus at the Geophysical Institute, reflects on his career and s... Read more

1 Mar 2022

39mins

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Ep. 9: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 1/2

Ep. 9: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 1/2

Vladimir Romanovsky is retiring after 30 years of studying permafrost at UAF's Geophysical Institute. He enters professo... Read more

8 Feb 2022

47mins

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Ep. 8: From Alaska to New Zealand, the bar-tailed godwit with Dan Ruthrauff

Ep. 8: From Alaska to New Zealand, the bar-tailed godwit with Dan Ruthrauff

Bird biologist Dan Ruthrauff of the USGS Science Center in Anchorage describes the bar-tailed godwit, a bird that every ... Read more

3 Jan 2022

35mins

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Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers

Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers

Hannah Myers is a graduate student and a killer whale linguist. She has listened to hundreds of underwater recordings fr... Read more

7 Dec 2021

36mins

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Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina Glacier

Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina Glacier

Martin Truffer is a glaciologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He reports that the Malasp... Read more

2 Nov 2021

29mins

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Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fish

Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fish

Randy Brown is a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Fairbanks. For years, he lived off the land in Ala... Read more

5 Oct 2021

37mins

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Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the institute

Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the institute

Roger Smith is a space physicist who moved to Alaska from London in the 80s. He became the director of the Geophysical I... Read more

14 Sep 2021

47mins

Ranked #9

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Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee Zirnheld

Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee Zirnheld

Sherry Simpson, one of the best descriptive writers in Alaska — and  possibly the world —  died in 2020 of a brain tumor... Read more

7 Jul 2021

25mins

Ranked #10

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Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, Alaska

Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, Alaska

In this episode, seismologist Carl Tape transforms into both historian and detective to investigate the strongest earthq... Read more

2 Jun 2021

29mins

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