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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

Download Radio Show The June 20 show featured part of a conversation with Richard Carstensen, Juneau-based naturalist. This was another part of the same conversation featured on the last show. Among other things, we spoke about the distribution nettles and how lidar imaging helps to reveal the past. If you have questions or observations you … Read more

Download Radio Show The June 6th show featured a conversation with Richard Carstensen. Among other things we spoke the mountain goats that winter on the slope above where he lives and the somewhat surprising find of very tall trees on steep mountain slopes. You can see more of what Richard’s been working on at Richard … Read more

Download Radio Show The May 23rd show featured a conversation with Andrés López, curator of fishes and marine invertebrates at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks. This conversation was originally recorded and aired in spring 2019.. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here … Read more

Download Radio Show The May 9th show featured some of the commonly heard bird songs around Sitka. 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.