Stories from Space: Alaska’s Researchers Look to the Sky

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to cover a number of stories with scientists whose research takes place in the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere and beyond. Here are a few links to some of those stories for your listening pleasure.

GI Space Physicist Anticipates Next Year’s Spacecraft Rendezvous with Dwarf Planet Pluto

A NASA spacecraft is headed for the outer reaches of the solar…

The Museum of the North: A Collection of Stories from the Basement

Kenelm Phliip collected thousand of butterfly specimens from across the arctic in his lifetime. (photo: Emily Schwing/KUAC

Museum Experts Sift through the Arctic’s Second Largest Butterfly Collection

Fairbanks, AK – It will be a few months before butterflies flit through the air in Interior Alaska, but the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was recently filled with them.

Th…

Art in the Arctic: Covering Artists and Their Work in the Far North

photo credit: nps.gov

Artists in Residence Sets Gates of the Arctic to Music

(originally aired on the Alaska Public Radio Network’s Alaska News Nightly August 6, 2012)

Bettles, AK – America’s National Parks serve as a back drop for some of the United States’ best known artwork.  Much of that work was created long before the National Park Service established an ‘Artist in Residence’ program. One…

Covering Conflict: Wolves in Alaska’s Denali National Park

‘Among Wolves’ Details Researcher’s Lifelong Passion 

By Emily Schwing

July 11, 2014

Earlier this year, the University of Alaska Press released a book detailing a biologist’s life-long effort to chronicle the lives of wolves that live inside the boundary of Denali Park and Preserve.

Marybeth Holleman was a friend of Doctor Gordon Haber, who was killed in a plane crash in Denali in 2009. Holleman…

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