https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240407_KCAW_SITNAT_Laura_Kaltenstein_encore.mp3Download Radio Show The April 7th show featured a conversation with Laura Kaltenstein, which was originally recorded an aired in late April 2023. We spoke about where birds nest around Sitka, some of the nests we’ve noticed over the years, and how we found them. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose. The post Sitka Nature Show #312 – Laura Kaltenstein (encore) first appeared on Sitka Nature ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240324_KCAW_SITNAT_Lauren_Bell.mp3Download Radio Show The March 24th show featured a conversation with Lauren Bell, research director at the Sitka Sound Science Center. We spoke about her transition from graduate student to her current role, goals and challenges of working on research which is motivated and connected to the communities where it occurs, and some of the projects the Sitka Sound Science Center is actively working on around the region. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment her ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240310_KCAW_SITNAT_Jon_Shaw_encore.mp3Download Radio Show The March 10th show featured a conversation with Jon Shaw, a bryologist at Duke University whose research is currently focused on Sphagnum (peat mosses). This conversation was originally recorded and aired in the summer of 2018 when he was making a short visit to Sitka. We spoke about what makes Sphagnum mosses unique, and the role they play in carbon cycling. Jon also shared about some of the work being done to try and understand what might happen with Sphagnum as the climate shifts. I ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240225_KCAW_SITNAT_Adam_Haberski.mp3Download Radio Show The February 25th show featured a conversation with Adam Haberski, who has been studying a group of rove beetles present on sky islands in the southern Appalachian Mountains. We spoke about rove beetles (Staphylinidae), how what he’s learned about the evolution of the group he has studied might inform similar studies on beetles in Southeast Alaska, and more generally about documenting beetles and other arthropods around Sitka. If you have questions or observations you want to share, pleas ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240211_KCAW_SITNAT_Barth_Hamburg_encore.mp3Download Radio Show The February 11th show featured a conversation with Barth Hamburg, retired landscape architect who is responsible for the design of many trails throughout Southeast Alaska. We spoke about some of these trails and the challenges Southeast Alaska presents to building and maintaining trails. This conversation was recorded and originally aired in December 2022. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up f ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240128_KCAW_SITNAT_Matt_Wilson.mp3Download Radio Show The January 28th show featured a conversation with Matt Wilson, aquarist at the Sitka Sound Science Center. We spoke about the life cycles and jellyfish and challenges with keeping and rearing them, as well as more generally about the art and science of encouraging and maintaining healthy diversity within an aquarium setting. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose. The post Sitka Nature Sh ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2024/20240114_KCAW_SITNAT_Joanna_Young_encore.mp3Download Radio Show The January 14th show featured a conversation with glaciologist Joanna Young, who studies the effects of retreating glaciers on watersheds downstream. Originally recorded and aired in October 2022, we spoke about glaciers, and her work with Girls on Ice Alaska. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose. The post Sitka Nature Show #306 – Joanna Young (encore) first appeared on Sitka Na ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2023/20231231_KCAW_SITNAT_Paul_Norwood_Brooke_Schafer.mp3Download Radio Show The December 31st show featured a conversation with Paul Norwood and Brooke Schafer. The Sitka Nature Show ended the year as it began. Paul and Brooke shared about some of their experiences from the last year, including learning to scuba dive, and further travels and explorations around Southeast Alaska. The Anatomy of a Wolf Den Site: A Field Report If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up f ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2023/20231217_KCAW_SITNAT_Bill_Foster_encore.mp3Download Radio Show The December 17th show featured a conversation with Bill Foster, who passed away in November. Bill was a guest several times during the early years of my show, and the conversation featured in this show is one I recorded with him in 2014. As was often the case in my conversations with him, we wandered a bit but inevitably came around to birds, birding, and birders. Bill also was an enthusiastic supporter and user of Sitka trails, and we spent the last part of the conversation talking ..read more

https://weblog-media.s3.amazonaws.com/raven/2023/20231202_KCAW_SITNAT_JCedarleaf_KLabounty.mp3Download Radio Show The December 2nd show featured a conversation with Jen Cedarleaf and Kitty LaBounty, we talked the Christmas Bird Count in Sitka (present and past), and more generally about birds and birding. If you have questions or observations you want to share, please feel free to leave a comment here or on the page I’ve set up for that purpose. The post Sitka Nature Show #303 – Jen Cedarleaf and Kitty LaBounty first appeared on Sitka Nature ..read more