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.
Episodes
47 episodes
Threshold 32F
The museum’s latest exhibit in the Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery, Threshold 32 Fahrenheit, is a collaboration between visual Artist Klara Maisch, writer Debbie Moderow, and ecologist Rebecca Hewitt. The exhibit is a mu...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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50:09
Observing Our Dynamic Planet
The museum’s latest special exhibit, Observing Our Dynamic Planet, showcases how synthetic aperture radar data allow us to study earth from space. To follow our last episode, which looked at the Alaska Satellite Facili...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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49:55
Ground Station
The museum has opened a new special exhibit in partnership with the Alaska Satellite Facility. The exhibit, Observing Our Dynamic Planet, showcases how synthetic aperture radar data is acquired and how it allows us to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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50:05
In a Time of Change
Mary Beth Leigh is UAF professor of microbiology and Arts-Humanities-science integration, and Director of the In a Time of Change (ITOC) program. Dr. Leigh's work has influenced exhibits at UAMN and found their way into shows and programming...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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50:23
Tales From the Front Desk
From the very beginning, we knew we wanted to produce an episode where we could hear some of the stories as told by the museum’s attendants, those employees who work the front desk, the store, who open the galleries and see to the needs of solo...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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50:17
From Leaf Miners to Burying Beetles
In this episode, we continue the conversation with UAMN Curator of Insects, Derek Sikes and UAMN Entomology Collections Manager, Jess Rykken, from the full episode, Of the Ants and the Bees. And we cover so many topics...
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Season 2
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22:33
Of the Ants and the Bees
The last time The More You Look sat down with museum entomologist, Derek Sikes, he hinted that perhaps at our next conversation, he could share some results on his work on the ants of Alaska. That was more than a year ago – and in pret...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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50:09
To Build Connections
UAMN Education & Public Programs offers a wide array of activities and resources for teachers, students, families, community members, and visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Opportunities to learn from, inspiration through museum colle...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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50:02
The Northwoods Set Book Project
In the Fall of 2024, the museum opened the Northwoods Set Book Project, the first special exhibit presented within the museum’s Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery, bringing closer together newer community work and the work within the museum’s per...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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50:18
Everyone's Grandfather
In September of 2024, Nathan Jackson’s totem pole, “Everyone’s Grandfather,” on the grounds of the museum, was removed from its site of 36 years and brought inside the museum for conservation and future installation within the building. UAF ...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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50:25
Stories We Can Tell
Christina parks, the UAMN's Director of Visitor Services somehow finds time for an afternoon chat on September 4th, 2024, what happened to be the busiest non-event day at the museum in years. Not all days at the museum are the same. Li...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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50:28
Opportunities in Fish
Today, a conversation with UAF masters student Sydney Almgren and postdoctoral researcher Laura Timm. We talk about their current research, Sydney updating us on her work following on a prior episode of the show – but they also talk about th...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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50:12
Oh the Places We Go
A conversation with Audra Darcy and Haley McCaig, UAMN research archaeologists, and recorded on the cusp of the 2024 summer field season. It's less about science and data analysis and more about logistics, planning, and manual labor in reall...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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50:17
The More You Find
In July 2023, the museum recorded a trailer for The More You Look Podcast, and we think, now more than a year later, we got the direction, the goals about right. Over the years, museum outreach has considered the museum from many angles. Wha...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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50:17
The Teacher Voice
Museum galleries and programs are brought to life by museum educators and members of the Fairbanks community, who volunteer to teach school children, guide tours, and help during special events. And the UA Museum docent program has been arou...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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50:25
Birds of the Late Cretaceous
Arctic lands today are important breeding grounds for more than 200 species of birds, some of which migrate great distances to take advantage of the abundant summer resources. But this episode is not about them, but birds that lived in Alask...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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50:18
A World of Workplaces
Welcome to season II, where we’ll continue to explore the stories and community of the museum. More from the students, more from the field, more memories of where we’ve been and how we get to tomorrow. And how appropriate ...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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50:18
Shared Interests
Museums are places of connection and relationship: visitor to visitor, visitor to object, object to community, community to future research – and there’s not a department within this museum that doesn’t foster and seek to grow all of those rela...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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50:20
Bering Sea Herring
Fisheries graduate student Sydney Almgren is studying Pacific Herring in the Bering Sea, their genetic diversity and the structure of the population, because it’s good to know what’s happening in the sea, it’s good to refine techniques and a...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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50:00
Seeds of Practice
In the museum’s latest special exhibition, Thinking Made Visible, perception, communication, and invention are explored through nature journals and cartoons, maps and scientific fieldnotes, architectural, art, and exhi...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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50:06
Bus 142: Hunting Cabin
The stampede trail bus, or Bus 142, saw more than 70 years of use in Fairbanks and then the mining trail west of Healy, Alaska before being flown back across the Teklanika and eventually becoming an object in a museum collection. Before it b...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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50:20
We Don't Take One Picture (We Take Five)
In this bonus Up Close episode, we continue our Episode 16 ("The Silences") conversation with UAMN Film Curator emeritus, Leonard Kamerling. We talk about the increasing need to curate our personal photos, the value in being an outsider as a...
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Season 1
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17:30
The Silences
In this episode, we talk about how UAMN Film Curator Emeritus, Leonard Kamerling came to filmmaking. What’s changed in the last quarter-century? What is very much the same? And what should we all, as individuals, as families, think about when i...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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50:11
