Martha Honey is the co-founder and former director of the Center for Responsible Travel in Washington, DC. She was in Sitka this summer collecting data for a major study comparing the economics of cruise travel versus independent travel in four major Alaska ports: Skagway, Juneau, Sitka, and Hoonah. She joins KCAW's Robert Woolsey to discuss her work.
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Sitka Health Summit Coalition members Doug Osborne and Johnny Elliot joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer to discuss the upcoming planning event, when two health related initiatives will be chosen as the 2021-2022 Health Summit goals.
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President Biden will address the nation at 4 p.m. on Sunday (8-22-21) about the administration's ongoing evacuation effort in Afghanistan. The president is also expected to speak about the government's preparations around Tropical Storm Henri. Watch President Biden's remarks live here:
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President Biden is delivering another speech about Afghanistan, as a scramble to evacuate American...
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Joel Markis is a Fisheries professor and dive instructor at UAS Sitka. He outlines the dive course offerings and the UAS dive program, which includes a basic and advanced scuba diving course this fall, as well as a semester-long diving intensive in the spring (Alaska Dive Semester).
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Sitka's Municipal Election is Tuesday, October 5.
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Brave Heart's Online Benefit Auction begins on August 18. Board president Michele Friedman and artist Pat Kehoe discuss how it works. 18 buoys and seven pieces of art will be on the block -- all by local artists. Pieces will on display at the Island Artists Cooperative Gallery on Lincoln Street.
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Doctoral students Lisa Berdie, Priya Gandhi, and Zhan Okuda-Lim joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer to discuss the work they're doing in the community during their six-week externships.
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What is an "atmospheric river" and how does it affect weather on the outer coast? Caleb Cradens from the National Weather Service in Juneau joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer to explain this -- and other phenomena -- that drive weather this time of year.
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Former Sitka science teacher and programmer Eric Matthes noticed an extraordinarily rapid rise in the Indian River (Ḵaasda Héen) on a trail run the morning of August 18, 2015. At the same time, three landslides struck in Sitka, one of them deadly. Matthes has since correlated eleven other landslides around Sitka since 2014 with high water events on the river, and developed an online tool that indicates when a rainstorm is producing a possible landslide hazard -- and when it's not.
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