Podcast Episodes

What's New in Ultra-Cold

Season 1 Episode 6

In 2023, long-time manager for the UAMN Genomics Collection, Kyndall Hildebrandt left the position, and Mammals Collection graduate student Mallory G…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Build a Whale

Season 1 Episode 5

The bowhead whale is an iconic arctic species inextricably tied to Native cultures in western and northern Alaska and a rare success story in marine …

2 years, 10 months ago

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Fieldwork: Experience and Expectation

Season 1 Episode 4

UAMN holds over 2.5 million objects across its 10 research and teaching collections: Earth Science, Fishes, Mammals, Archaeology, Fine Arts, Ethnolog…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Bus 142: The Life of Objects

Season 1 Episode 3

The stampede trail bus, or Bus 142 has come to the UA Museum of the North. The bus was made famous by the death of Christopher McCandless, John Kraka…

2 years, 11 months ago

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Hoary Marmots and the Alpine Island

Season 1 Episode 2

In 2017, the museum opened the second Expedition Alaska show, one of an ongoing series of exhibits that highlights contemporary museum collections re…

2 years, 11 months ago

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The Arthropods of Kasatochi

Season 1 Episode 1

For more than ten years, UA Museum of the North Curator of Entomology, Derek Sikes has traveled to the remote Aleutian volcano, Kasatochi, in order t…

3 years ago

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The More You Look

Season 1

Hello and welcome to The More You Look, a podcast from the UA Museum of the North and your behind-the-scenes journey into museum collections, researc…

3 years, 1 month ago

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