The More You Look
Welcome to The More You Look, a production of the UA Museum of the North and your behind-the-scenes journey into museum collections, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks Alaska. Join us as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how and why. Learn about new programs and new ways to get involved. Curators will discuss the latest field season and collections managers what new finds have come to our labs to be cataloged, studied, and made available to researchers worldwide. We’ll get a look at major projects on the horizon and notable ones from years past. We’ll visit the museum labs–and field camps throughout Alaska and gain a better understanding of not only what this museum is within and without its walls, but quite possibly what discussions take place within any art and natural and cultural history museum that you might venture inside.
The More You Look is now also a KUAC FM radio show.
The More You Look
The More You Look
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, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks Alaska. We hope you’ll join us in the months and years to come as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how and why. Learn about new programs and new ways to get involved.
Curators will discuss the latest field season and collections managers what new finds have come to our labs to be cataloged, studied, and made available to researchers worldwide. We’ll get a look at major projects on the horizon and notable ones from years past. We’ll visit the museum labs–and field camps throughout Alaska and gain a better understanding of not only what this museum is within and without its walls, but quite possibly what discussions take place within any art and natural and cultural history museum that you might venture inside.
We hope you’ll have a listen. We hope you’ll take a look. Subscribe now and share. The museum is nearing a hundred years old and we’re far from the start of this journey. Between us and you, the listener, we’ve a lot of catching up to do. And the more you look, the more you find.
The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. UAMN illuminates the natural history and cultural heritage of Alaska and the North through collections, research, education, and partnerships, and by creating a singular museum experience that honors diverse knowledge and respect for the land and its peoples.
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, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks, Alaska. We hope you'll join us in the months and years to come as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how and why. Learn about new programs and new ways to get involved. Curators will discuss the latest field season, and collection managers what new finds have come to our labs to be catalogued, studied, and made available to researchers worldwide. We'll get a look at major projects on the horizon, and notable ones from years past. We'll visit the museum labs and field camps throughout Alaska and get a better understanding of not only what this museum is within and without its walls, but quite possibly what discussions take place within any art and natural and cultural history museum that you might venture in inside.
Derek Sikes:Documenting the diversity of Alaska is something that I consider a huge priority because it's undocumented. Discovering new life is what drives most taxonomists. Their, kind of, emotional drive comes from that discovery.
Link Olson:And it will take people doing what we're doing 10, 50 100 200 years from now to develop the after picture, to see what happens to hoary marmots isolated in these mountain ranges or on these individual peaks after multiple decades of continued climate change, and we anticipate that they will become more isolated from one another, that some populations will likely become locally extinct. And as those isolated islands become smaller and smaller and separated from one another by greater and greater distances as the ocean of boreal forest and shrub habitat rises, that that may not bode well for hoary marmots.
Angela Linn:We are standing here next to famous Bus 142. This is the 1946 International Harvester K5 bus that sat along the Stampede Trail since 1961. It is a single object. It is hundreds of objects. I've never worked on an object or a group of objects that people had such emotional connection to, and such visceral reactions to, and the need to physically put their hands on a piece.
Aren Gunderson:From the second level above the whale, you can look down on it as if you are standing on the ice, or in a kayak, and you're viewing the whale as you would see it from that standpoint. And it would be diving after taking a breath. It would be diving down into the water again.
Link Olson:I actually use the word inertia a lot in the context of fieldwork and just remind students and visiting collaborators and colleagues that it's easier to stay than and to get pretty much any positive attribute in the field. It's easier to stay dry than to get dry. It's easier to stay warm than to get warm. It's easier to stay found than to get found.
Josh Reuther:You know, there are many people who enjoy the lab much more than the field and but they've tried the field and they--you know there's a romanticism, I think, about the field in general, and you can see that on reality TV shows everywhere. It's, you know, I think the adversity the, I would say like the gruffness. You know, some, I think some of it's machismo, in a way,
Pat Druckenmiller:You know, it's Alaska after all. So we we have a short field season. And in fact, it's even worse than that. Because even when the weather gets warm, many of the places we work are either high elevation like in Denali, and so we have to wait for the snow to go away. Or they're up north. Same situation up in the Arctic where it takes a long time for the snow to go away. And then there's bugs season and it's really miserable to work some places at certain times of the year. So then that'll often limit, like okay, I really try not to go to the North Slope between middle of June and late July.
Steffi Ickert Bond:Nothing compares to seeing a plant in its natural habitat than, you know, looking at a dried specimen and it says, oh yeah, it's at Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile, you know, and then you're there and you're in these fjords and you have these towering mountains in front of you and then your tiny plant grows right there. And there's the vicuñas are running through the—you know, it's just—you will never forget that and you'll never forget what that plant looked like versus when it's squashed on the herbarium sheet. You know, and you will have certain sounds and scents that you associate with that experience. Also, you'll never forget, and it'll come back sometimes when you have certain foods
Roger Topp:The More You Look at the production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of the Dene people of the lower Tanana River. UAMN illuminates the natural history and cultural heritage of Alaska and the North through collections, research, education, and partnerships, and by creating a singular museum experience that honors diverse knowledge and respect for the land and its peoples. We hope you'll have a listen. We hope you'll take a look. Subscribe now and share. The museum is nearing 100 years old and we're far from the start of this journey. Between us and you, the listener, we have a lot of catching up to do. And the more you look, the more you find.
