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A Day in Denali
Before leaving this incredible land of Alaska to return to Michigan, I got the chance see Denali National Park. This place, was the most shocking beautiful landscape I’ve seen. Everything truly looked like a painted picture. I spent he day with my parents looking for moose and other wildlife. I was surprised to see the…
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Meeting My Soul Animal
Sometimes I just get this feeling, this feeling that I’m supposed to be somewhere. I had been thinking about going on a boat tour of the park on my day off for a while, but rain seemed to be chasing me. Last Wednesday I got that feeling, the feeling that I should go on a…
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Bear Obsessed
I think it’s easy to see why people are drawn to bears. For myself, it’s a fascination with the connections I can draw between them and humans. Specifically, I find the fact that some bears are creatures of habit (to the point of predicting their behavior based on time) is fascinating, and absolutely similar to…
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The Struggle of Days Off
I haven’t had a day at work yet where I’ve wanted to take the next day off. Weekends are such a weird thing here because 1) I am running out of time for video editing at work and I truly love putting these stories together, always wanting to spend more time on it and 2) I’ve…
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Processing
This past week has been incredible. Watching your work being shared and viewed makes everything I do and everything I want to do worth that much more. It’s hard to believe that I only have 22 days left here, and I have so much that I want to get done. These stories (including Changing Tides, Nearshore…
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Katmai National Park and Preserve: A view from above
The past two weeks have been… indescribable by words. The people I got to work with, sights I got to see, and the story I get to help tell is something that is so special, so incredible, that it’s still hard for me to process. I’ll admit, flying scared me. Especially in small 4-person planes…
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Aialik Bay: Ending the Trip
On Saturday, we finally met up with the Inventory and Monitoring crew that was working to collect data on different kinds of near shore environments. I spent my morning with a crew of three, collecting a myriad of data on the Rocky Nearshore Ecosystem. My afternoon was spent with a crew of two collecting data…
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Aialik Bay: Day 1 continued and day 2
A slight bit of proof that this really is happening. Honestly It’s pretty cool to see a photo like this, because most of the time I’m debating of this is real or not. Thursday, we continued to travel to ABRS, and made some pit stops to Aialik Glacier, Coleman Bay, and many other places to…
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Aialik Bay: Day 1
This past week I got to travel out to Aialik Bay with 2 others from the Ocean Alaska Science and Learning Center- My boss Jim who is the education coordinator and Erin, our Scientific communicator. We were rendezvousing (a word used a lot here) with a group of researchers collecting data for the Near Shore…
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Today is the Day.
Today’s was the day. Up until now, my wildlife sighting list included Stellar Sea Lions and Sea Otters. Now, my list includes more than I can list (here’s some for those who are interested: humpback whale, fin whale, stellar sea lions, sea otter, horned puffin, tufted puffin, countless sea birds, bald eagle). I walked to…
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