Tsunamis, caused by earthquakes or landslides, are a danger that affects people in coastal communities around Alaska. Large waves caused by displaced water can devastate coastlines for thousands of miles with little warning. Joel Curtis, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service, speaks about the causes and response to tsunamis, and the threat they pose.
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Tidelines Ferry Tour
A small group of artists are on a floating, ferry-based residency across coastal Alaska through Sitka’s Island Institute. With the institute’s Peter Bradley, the artists are exploring the intersection of climate change and culture. Playwright Chantal Bilodeau, creative futurist Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, rapper Allison Warden and poet Devan Alexander present some of their work…
Criminal Justice Reform
Alaska’s prison population has grown almost three times faster than the state’s overall population in the last decade. About two out of three inmates released from prison return within three years. Lawmakers recognized a need for reform and in 2014 convened a commission of multidisciplinary experts to study the system. Now, members of that commission…
The Flying University: Community
A forum with people from the documentary “The Flying University” and experts in the field. The short film reveals a university class inside Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center that is led by Sol Neely, an English professor at the University of Alaska Southeast. Click here to watch the full documentary Interviews with inmates, former inmates,…
Alaska’s Deep Money Challenge and What We Can Do
The Alaska budget game show. Alaska’s crude oil, the lifeblood of our economy, is selling for less than a third of what it did just two years ago. The state is poised for recession. Economist Gunnar Knapp of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Cliff Groh of the nonpartisan…
How Childhood Sexual Assault Survivors Turned Trauma into Art
Alaska writers Vera Starbard and David Holthouse were sexually assaulted as children. Each of their stories has been turned into plays – Our Voices Will Be Heard and Stalking the Bogeyman. At this Forum@360, hear their incredible journeys of healing through storytelling, and the power of shattering the silence onstage. Storyteller Jack Dalton will also…