Ice and Fire
Listen to climate change in Alaska through place-based narrative.
Ice and Fire is a podcast that uses audio storytelling to share cryosphere change as the global climate warms. The cryosphere is all of Earth's frozen surface water including frozen freshwater lakes, glaciers, permafrost and sea ice -- frozen saltwater.
It only takes a small temperature increase for water to melt or thaw from solid into liquid form, yet a cascade of impacts result when we lose ice to fastly flowing liquid.
Season one emphasizes the significance of glacier melt, and connects listeners to distant glaciers rapidly responding to anthropogenic climate change through dialogue with researchers, traditional knowledge-bearers, and by sharing audio of ice-melt in real time.
Season two, available now, is all about permafrost thaw.
Ice and Fire
flyover
In this introductory episode of season one of the Ice and Fire podcast, hear from your host, Theresa Soley, as she shares her unexpected interest in glacial ice.
topics and purpose: geological history and glacier change, an introduction to characters, scene-setting: Wrangell Mountains Center in McCarthy, Alaska – the end of the road and Wrangell St.-Elias National Park; visualizing the presently glaciated landscape from above during a flyover
terms defined: glacier, icefield, debris-covered glacier
notes: the Hardware Store in McCarthy is typically referred to as the Old Hardware Store