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Download Radio Show The April 2nd show featured a conversation with Sonia Nagorski – we talked about the role of black carbon in the environment, and in particular, how it can have a disproportionate effect on the melting of snow and ice. She and other colleagues recently did some preliminary work looking at black carbon … Read more

Download Radio Show The 19 March show featured a conversation with Chirs Whitehead and Esther Kennedy of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Environmental Research Lab. We talked about their work testing shelfish for toxins and the natural history of the plankton that produce the toxins that can result in sickness and death when concentrated in … Read more

Download Radio Show The March 5th show featured a conversation with Lauren Wild, PhD student at the College of Fisheries, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and part of the Southeast Alaska Sperm Whale Avoidance Project team for the past 8 years. We talked about sperm whales and some of the work she is doing to try … Read more

Download Radio Show The 19 February show featured a conversation with Nick Pyenson, curator fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian. We talked about his work with whales, both ancient and more recent, as well as other interesting finds and some of the possible interpretations and implications of this work. Check out the Pyenson Lab weblog … Read more

Download Radio Show The February 5th show featured a conversation with Andy Szabo, director of the Alaska Whale Foundation. We spoke primarily the Center for Coastal Conservation – a scientific field station located in Baranof Warm Springs, some of the monitoring projects that have already been started, and the ongoing work to continue its development … Read more