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  • Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 4: Reflections

    Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 4: Reflections
    2025/05/23
    This podcast miniseries focuses on the life and career of Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)’s climate specialist, Rick Thoman. This podcast, hosted by Liz Carter, is made by ACCAP in partnership with Alaska Voices. In this episode Rick Thoman shares lessons learned throughout his time in Alaska. He offers advice on how to build trust and serve rural communities. “Ultimately I feel like I’ve made a difference in a positive way and that’s a good feeling when you’re in your 60s … but y’know most of my career is behind me and to think I’ve made a positive difference is an important feeling for me.” – Rick Thoman
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    19 分
  • Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 3: Successes

    Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 3: Successes
    2025/05/21
    This podcast miniseries focuses on the life and career of Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)’s climate specialist, Rick Thoman. This podcast, hosted by Liz Carter, is made by ACCAP in partnership with Alaska Voices. In this episode Rick Thoman shares key career accomplishments, and several collaborators weigh in on what makes Rick such a trusted source of climate information in Alaska. The episode includes conservations with Gay Sheffield (University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bering Strait Sea Grant Agent), Diana Haecker (Nome Nugget, editor), Ed Plumb (National Weather Service, marine and coastal flood program manager), and Uma Bhatt (University of Alaska Fairbanks, professor of atmospheric sciences). “There’s people with lots of questions. And people know for the weather and storms, everyone gets a service. You can pick up the paper, there’s Rick Thoman. Facebook, there he is. And we know that takes time.” – Gay Sheffield
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    18 分
  • Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 2: Career

    Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 2: Career
    2025/05/16
    This podcast miniseries focuses on the life and career of Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)’s climate specialist, Rick Thoman. This podcast, hosted by Liz Carter, is made by ACCAP in partnership with Alaska Voices. In this episode Rick Thoman outlines the bulk of his career thus far, covering his time at the National Weather Service in Nome and Fairbanks as well as his transition to working for ACCAP in 2018. The episode delves in on defining moments that set the trajectory for his career and approach working with Alaska communications. “Nome was my very first lesson in listening to what's important to people as far as weather and climate impacts and the kinds of information that they need.” –Rick Thoman
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    13 分
  • Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 1: Origins

    Alaska Weather Voices - Episode 1: Origins
    2025/05/14
    This podcast miniseries focuses on the life and career of Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP)’s climate specialist, Rick Thoman. This podcast, hosted by Liz Carter, is made by ACCAP in partnership with Alaska Voices. In this episode Rick Thoman describes how he came to love weather, climate and Alaska. Starting in childhood, the episode follows Rick from elementary school projects on Alaska and tracking the weather in Pennsylvania to his first Alaska trip in 1986 that launched his weather and climate career. “I’ve been interested in weather and climate from my earliest memories. As a child, probably late elementary school, junior high school age, every morning I would get up and I would look at the temperature on the thermometer that was outside my bedroom window. And I would write it down and I would plot it on a piece of graph paper.” – Rick Thoman
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    11 分
  • Alaska Weather Voices Miniseries Starts Wednesday

    Alaska Weather Voices Miniseries Starts Wednesday
    2025/05/12
    This Wednesday weʼll release, the first episode of the 4-episode miniseries on Alaskaʼs beloved weather and climate communicator, Rick Thoman. Stay tuned for Rickʼs story and a new Alaska Voices season.
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    1 分
  • Tracking community coastal change

    Tracking community coastal change
    2021/05/24
    "I've seen an artistry come out of Alaska, it has changed, the way in which we've articulated in which our resources are important to us and how we've done that through art, and other type of expression, that makes me really hopeful." - Davin Holen
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    8 分
  • Weathering winter rainstorms

    Weathering winter rainstorms
    2021/05/17

    Jim Brader (53) talks with colleague and friend Eric Stevens (49) about leading the Fairbanks weather office during the November 2010 freezing rain event.

    Recorded by Jessie Robertson on February 26, 2018 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Edited by Kelsey Skonberg.

    Music: “Arctic Evening” by Marcel du Preez

    More episodes and information at www.alaskavoices.org
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    8 分
  • When the ice dam fails

    When the ice dam fails
    2021/05/10

    Eran Hood (49) speaks with collaborator Gabriel Wolken (45) about glacial outflow flooding in Juneau and Valdez, as well as how residents have embraced the monitoring and forecasting of these events.

    Recorded by Jessie Robertson on February 20, 2018 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Edited by Kelsey Skonberg.

    Music: “Arctic Evening” by Marcel du Preez

    More episodes and information at www.alaskavoices.org
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    10 分