Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist and a research scientist. He collects data and analyzes it. And within that mountain of data, he believes many of the secrets of the world exist. But extracting meaning from all that information is a big challenge. It takes time, education and technology.
With its many research institutions located in arctic environments—including universities and weather stations—Alaska is important in the global conversation surrounding climate change. Brian says that, in a lot of ways, the state is a research laboratory with a collection of intellectual firepower located in close proximity to locations that are experiencing quick and dramatic changes. Changes that affect our ways of life, societal infrastructure, transportation and cultural identity.
EP 25 The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act shapes Alaska’s Past and Future with Aaron Leggett
EP 024 What food tells us about love, identity and culture with Julia O’Malley
EP 023 Cultural burning and Indigenous knowledge with Dr. Amy Christianson and Matthew Kristoff
EP 022 How language influences identity and culture with Kirk Gallardo
EP 021 Destroying art, compassion for nature and the impermanence of us with John Grade
EP 020 Living intentionally with Jovell Rennie
EP 019 Protection and hope through illustration with Ted Kim
EP 018 Rethinking art in the Circumpolar North with Charis Gullickson
EP 017 Glacial Erratics Part 4: Reconciling ecological loss by seeking reliquaries and memories in the Earth
EP 016 Glacial Erratics Part 3: Exploring and reimagining our collective future
EP 015 Glacial Erratics Part 2: Understanding our relationship with mutations, kin and hybrid bodies
EP 014 Glacial Erratics Part 1: How science and art intersect to help us understand humans’ complex relationship with nature
EP 013 How sound influences our lives and our relationship with the natural world
EP 012 Finding your passion and chasing it, with artist and muralist Rejoy Armamento
EP 011 Indigenous traditions of healing and coming-of-age, with traditional healer Meda DeWitt
EP 010 The importance of diverse voices in media, with photojournalist and documentary photographer Ash Adams
EP 009 The duality of storytelling: Balancing journalism and nuance, with photographer Jeroen Toirkens
EP 008 Women subverting Northern masculine myths with Anchorage Museum curator Francesca DuBrock
EP 007 Art as self-preservation: Responding to social oppression through creativity, with artist and educator Thomas Chung
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