Sitka Nature Show #108 – Allison Nelson

Download Radio Show The 12th of June show featured a conversation with Allison Nelson, who recently had a paper published about breeding areas of Hermit Thrushes that winter in the San Francisco Bay area. Her research, and the discovery that some of the thrushes wintering there were nesting in Southeast Alaska was the inspiration for … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #107 – Karen Blejwas

Download Radio Show The 29th of May show featured a conversation with Karen Blejwas, of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She has been coordinating a project involving citizens monitoring bat activity in several communities around Southeast Alaska. We talked about some of what is known (and not known) about bats and their biology, … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #106 – Jennifer Purcell

Download Radio Show The 15th of May show featured a conversation with Jennifer Purcell from Western Washington University. She has studied jellyfish around the world and was in town as part of the Scientist in Residence Fellowship program at the Sitka Sound Science Center. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please … Read more

Sitka Nature Show #104 – Lauren Bell

Download Radio Show The 15th of April show featured a conversation with Lauren Bell. Lauren and I discussed her master’s work looking at invertebrate food webs based on sampling done along survey transects in the Beaufort Sea. Later in the conversation we talked about some of what has been involved in here in Sitka, as … Read more