Host Adrien Lopez interviews local author Lynn Schooler in the first part of the program and then Representative Beth Kerttula and Mike Levine from OCEANA talk about Alaska’s Coastal Zone Management past, present and future, and the work of the Sea Party to promote a ballot initiative to revive the Program.
Alaska Identity Project
Alaska Identity Project 12/8/11
Host Adrien Lopez interviews Geoff Kirsch and Nils Andreassen. 7:00 – 7:30 PM: Geoff Kirsch has written for Comedy Central, Huffington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, among others. His first book-length piece, Run For Your Life! Doomsday 2012! came out this past summer from Workman. For the last two and a half years, he has…
Alaska Identity Project 12/1/11
Host Adrien Lopez interviews Andy Winer, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships and the Acting Director of External Affairs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington DC. He shared more information about the Joint ‘Statement of Intent’ to Strengthen Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience signed at the APEC CEO Summit in…
Alaska Identity Project 11/3/11
Stories from a Valdez Family The Lopez family came to Alaska in the late 1940’s, originally settling in Fairbanks and then later in the community of Valdez as commercial fishermen. Tune in as Tillie, Tim and Eric tell their stories from the 1964 Earthquake, helping to build the Trans Alaska Pipeline, experiences cleaning up the…
Alaska Identity Project 10/27/11
In the first part of the show, 7:00-7:30 PM, host Adrien Lopez will bring back Deb Spencer (had technical difficulties last time) owner of Cross Sound Seafoodsand Scow Girls, an all female floating fish operation near Pelican, Alaska. The scow was originally built by the late John Clauson and later acquired by Deb Spencer & Keith Heller. For pictures from this past summer’s fishing season, click…
Alaska Identity Project 10/20/11
In the first half hour Adrien talked with Dave Gaudet, Marine Debris Program Coordinator for the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation, and then in the second part of the show she interviewed two guests from the organization OCEANA – Chris Krenz, Arctic Project Manager and Jon Warrenchuk, Ocean Scientist for Oceana’s Pacific Region based here in…