Best Uaf Geophysical Institute Podcasts (2024)

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Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest 28:28

2+ y ago28:28

28:28

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 l…

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Ep. 10: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 2/2 39:09

2+ y ago39:09

39:09

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)By UAF Geophysical Institute

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Ep. 9: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 1/2 47:03

2+ y ago47:03

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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 an…

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Ep. 8: From Alaska to New Zealand, the bar-tailed godwit with Dan Ruthrauff 35:33

2+ y ago35:33

35:33

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!

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Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers 36:00

2+ y ago36:00

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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.…

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Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina Glacier 29:40

2+ y ago29:40

29:40

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)…

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Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fish 37:39

3y ago37:39

37:39

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)…

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Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the institute 48:09

3y ago48:09

48:09

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)By UAF Geophysical Institute

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Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee Zirnheld 26:15

3y ago26:15

26:15

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 Stori…

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Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, Alaska 29:39

3y ago29:39

29:39

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)By UAF Geophysical Institute

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Ep. 1: Cathy Cahill talks innovation in unmanned aircraft 40:32

3y ago40:32

40:32

Cathy Cahill directs the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Her fleet of vehicles encompasses those too intelligent to call “drones” to tiny aircraft fitting in one hand, to gas-powered, 16-foot dual-engine ships that may soon deliver snowmachine parts to rural Alaska…

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Ep. 11: Field Notes: Into the Ghost Forest 28:28

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Ep. 10: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 2/2 39:09

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Ep. 9: Thirty Years of Permafrost Research with Vladimir Romanovsky, Part 1/2 47:03

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Ep. 8: From Alaska to New Zealand, the bar-tailed godwit with Dan Ruthrauff 35:33

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Ep. 7: Calls of killer whales with Hannah Myers 36:00

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Ep. 6: Martin Truffer and the surging Malaspina Glacier 29:40

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Ep. 5: Randy Brown and the Bering cisco, a tasty Alaska fish 37:39

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Ep. 4: GI's 75th Anniversary with Roger Smith: Past, present and future of the institute 48:09

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Ep. 3: Sherry Shimpson's "Telling Raven Stories," read by Lee Zirnheld 26:15

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Ep. 2: Seismologist Carl Tape investigates the 1900 earthquake near Kodiak, Alaska 29:39

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Ep. 1: Cathy Cahill talks innovation in unmanned aircraft 40:32

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