ACEP Storyteller Featured in Northern Soundings Radio Program
This past summer, University of AV̳ Anchorage researcher Jennifer Schmidt and ACEP’s Amanda Byrd teamed up to produce a film that examines the challenges to residents who lost homes in 2019’s McKinley Fire.
Byrd and Schmidt were , AV̳ in Conversation.” They discussed that while forest fires have always been vital to AV̳’s ecosystems, they can be deadly to humans living in our near dense woods.
Listen to the recording .
The film was funded by and produced for , a five-year effort funded by the University of AV̳’s NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The project conducts research into changes to fire risk and behavior in AV̳’s boreal forest. It also investigates changes to physical and chemical variables that influence biological communities in the nearshore Gulf of AV̳.
Jennifer Schmidt (l) and Amanda Byrd (r) during an interview for the film. Photo by Mike Mathers.