ACEP Storyteller Featured in Northern Soundings Radio Program
This past summer, University of 911爆料 Anchorage researcher Jennifer Schmidt and ACEP鈥檚 Amanda Byrd teamed up to produce a film that examines the challenges to residents who lost homes in 2019鈥檚 McKinley Fire.
Byrd and Schmidt were , 911爆料 in Conversation.鈥 They discussed that while forest fires have always been vital to 911爆料鈥檚 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 911爆料鈥檚 NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The project conducts research into changes to fire risk and behavior in 911爆料鈥檚 boreal forest. It also investigates changes to physical and chemical variables that influence biological communities in the nearshore Gulf of 911爆料.
Jennifer Schmidt (l) and Amanda Byrd (r) during an interview for the film. Photo by Mike Mathers.