Category: Press

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Talking climate change at CES in Las Vegas

My three months on Cooper Island every summer for the past 45 years is characterized by long periods (up to 6 weeks) of being alone and with little dependence on the technological gadgets and infrastructure that dominate the lives of those living on the grid in the early 21st Century. The isolation and simplicity of...

World Wildlife Fund features Cooper Island research in Arctic Magazine
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World Wildlife Fund features Cooper Island research in Arctic Magazine

The 2019 winter edition of the World Wildlife Fund’s Arctic magazine, The Circle, features findings from the Cooper Island Black Guillemot study. The entire issue is well worth reading with articles on how the warming Arctic is affecting indigenous people, birds and mammals, and tundra vegetation. The WWF website has additional text and links not...

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Crosscut Article on Our Work

Last April I went to Barrow for a few days to prepare for the upcoming field season and, more importantly, to visit with my colleagues and friends in Barrow without the rushed atmosphere of my visits when I am there heading out to the field or back to Seattle.  Without the support and friendship of...

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Cooper Island Research part of Polar Sea documentary

Cooper Island sits at the western end of the fabled Northwest Passage that has engaged explorers and adventurers for centuries.  Cooper Island would not even be called “Cooper Island” if it were not for John Franklin’s attempt (and failure) to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.  As the British H.M.S....

An interview in New Worker Magazine just before heading for the field
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An interview in New Worker Magazine just before heading for the field

Beth Jusino who, like me, works out of the Office Nomads coworking space in Seattle, wrote about the Cooper Island research for the inaugural edition of New Worker Magazine in an interview that answers the pressing question “Do you plan to continue  your 39-year-study this summer or might you do something  else?”