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 written a regular column, “Slack Tide,” for the Juneau Empire, hailed by critics as “in English” and “left-to-right, top-to-bottom.” www.geoffkirsch.com
7:30 – 8:00 PM: Nils Andreassen is the Managing Director of the Institute of the North. His background in rural and international development, Alaska policy issues and leadership development fit well within the Institute’s mission to research commonly-owned lands, seas and resources while educating and engaging Alaskans in the responsibilities of that ownership. The Institute has a legacy working on Arctic infrastructure priorities and policies that serve to strengthen and connect northern communities.
www.institutenorth.org
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 mid-November 2011, and the Joint Polar Satellite System, among other topics.
In the second part of the show, from 7:30 – 8:00 PM, she talked with Travis Gilmour, Public Media Director for KAKM TV, KSKA 91.1FM, and the Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN). He is also the Manager of Town Square 49, an exciting and engaging online destination to share stories, ideas, and voice, in words, photos and videos. “It’s where Alaska happens.”
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 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1989, living in a religious cult in Southeast Alaska, among many other stories from Alaska’s past.
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 here
7:30 – 8:00 PM: “Spawn Till You Die” – One of Ray Troll’s most famous sayings. This well-known Alaskan artist will be on the show from 7:30 – 8:00 PM talking about the Fin Art of Ray Troll and his impact on Alaska, his latest exhibits in the Lower 48, the music he makes with his band called The Ratfish Wranglers, and why Troll Global Industries are redefining the cosmos. Read more about him on his website here.
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 Juneau.
For more information about these organizations, check out the following websites: http://www.mcafoundation.org/, http://na.oceana.org/