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Welcome to The More You Look, a production of the UA Museum of the North and your behind-the-scenes journey into museum collections, research, exhibits, and public programming from Fairbanks Alaska. Join us as we talk about special exhibitions in development, and changes to look for in the permanent galleries. Not just the what, but the how and why. Learn about new programs and new ways to get involved. Curators will discuss the latest field season and collections managers what new finds have come to our labs to be cataloged, studied, and made available to researchers worldwide. We’ll get a look at major projects on the horizon and notable ones from years past. We’ll visit the museum labs–and field camps throughout Alaska and gain a better understanding of not only what this museum is within and without its walls, but quite possibly what discussions take place within any art and natural and cultural history museum that you might venture inside.
The More You Look is now also a KUAC FM radio show.
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The museum’s latest exhibit in the Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery, Threshold 32 Fahrenheit, is a collaboration between visual Artist Klara Maisch, writer Debbie Moderow, and ecologist Rebecca Hewitt. The exhibit is a multidisciplinary narrative about change in the boreal forest. It is as much about the process of collaboration and the development of community as it is the observance of the world and creation of art. Klara, Debbie, and Rebecca have worked together before, and began their collab...
The museum’s latest special exhibit, Observing Our Dynamic Planet, showcases how synthetic aperture radar data allow us to study earth from space. To follow our last episode, which looked at the Alaska Satellite Facility’s Ground Station, this episode comes from the 20 or so interviews we conducted with ASF scientists and engineers in the process of developing the exhibition. Joining us from various points in 2024, are Heidi Kristenson, Joe Kennedy, Simon Zwiebeck, Forest Williams, Andrew Joh...
The museum has opened a new special exhibit in partnership with the Alaska Satellite Facility. The exhibit, Observing Our Dynamic Planet, showcases how synthetic aperture radar data is acquired and how it allows us to study global agriculture, forestry, permafrost, flooding events, volcanoes, earthquakes, sea ice, and glaciers. Joining us in this episode are Wade Albright, Director of the Alaska Satellite Facility and Paul Austin, ASF Ground Station Manager to talk about ASF’s most visible la...
Mary Beth Leigh is UAF professor of microbiology and Arts-Humanities-science integration, and Director of the In a Time of Change (ITOC) program. Dr. Leigh's work has influenced exhibits at UAMN and found their way into shows and programming for much of the program's 18 years. The episode covers Leigh's influences, some of the history of ITOC, and its past and present influences on UAMN exhibits. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University ...
From the very beginning, we knew we wanted to produce an episode where we could hear some of the stories as told by the museum’s attendants, those employees who work the front desk, the store, who open the galleries and see to the needs of solo travelers, families, and large tours. This time, Director of Exhibits, Design, and Digital Media, Roger Topp sits with three of our attendants and UAF students, Sophie Zhang, Grace Hopkins, and Claire Thelen. The More You Look is a production of the UA...
In this episode, we continue the conversation with UAMN Curator of Insects, Derek Sikes and UAMN Entomology Collections Manager, Jess Rykken, from the full episode, Of the Ants and the Bees. And we cover so many topics including some of the research efforts at UAF, student work, entomology in exhibits, plans for the summer, and posting in iNaturalist. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of...
The last time The More You Look sat down with museum entomologist, Derek Sikes, he hinted that perhaps at our next conversation, he could share some results on his work on the ants of Alaska. That was more than a year ago – and in pretty much that same span of time, the museum gained a second entomologist – Jess Rykken, UAMN’s new Entomology Collections Manager, and a specialist in pollinators. So, some catching up to do, and the conversation will appear in two episodes. In this first part, w...
UAMN Education & Public Programs offers a wide array of activities and resources for teachers, students, families, community members, and visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Opportunities to learn from, inspiration through museum collections and related research. Through collaboration with UAF departments and the community, this museum department connects the public with Alaska's science, arts, history, and cultures whether through hands-on family programs, school field trip opportuniti...
In the Fall of 2024, the museum opened the Northwoods Set Book Project, the first special exhibit presented within the museum’s Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery, bringing closer together newer community work and the work within the museum’s permanent collections. It’s the first of a growing line-up of temporary shows housed within the museum’s principal art gallery. UAMN Director of Exhibits, Design and Digital Media, Roger Topp met with Northwoods Book Arts Guild members Susan Campbell, Margo K...
In September of 2024, Nathan Jackson’s totem pole, “Everyone’s Grandfather,” on the grounds of the museum, was removed from its site of 36 years and brought inside the museum for conservation and future installation within the building. UAF professor of Native Art, Da-ka-xeen Mehner, and UAMN Senior Collections Manager for Ethnology and History, Angela Linn talk about the lowering of the pole and the in-progress work to get it back onto exhibit. The More You Look is a production of the UA ...
Christina parks, the UAMN's Director of Visitor Services somehow finds time for an afternoon chat on September 4th, 2024, what happened to be the busiest non-event day at the museum in years. Not all days at the museum are the same. Like anywhere, some days are down-right rough, and no more so than for the staff in museum visitor services. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of the D...
Today, a conversation with UAF masters student Sydney Almgren and postdoctoral researcher Laura Timm. We talk about their current research, Sydney updating us on her work following on a prior episode of the show – but they also talk about their varied histories within the fields of fish, the jobs they’ve done, opportunities and advice for students, and the jobs they might do in the future. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of A...
A conversation with Audra Darcy and Haley McCaig, UAMN research archaeologists, and recorded on the cusp of the 2024 summer field season. It's less about science and data analysis and more about logistics, planning, and manual labor in really cool places. The More You Look is a production of the UA Museum of the North, on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. UAMN illuminates the natural history and cultural h...
In July 2023, the museum recorded a trailer for The More You Look Podcast, and we think, now more than a year later, we got the direction, the goals about right. Over the years, museum outreach has considered the museum from many angles. What does, not any museum, but this museum look like in terms of a gallery, in terms of a website, a book, a card game? What does this museum sound like when it takes on the form of a podcast. And what can we as a community, and the museum’s visitors, learn f...
Museum galleries and programs are brought to life by museum educators and members of the Fairbanks community, who volunteer to teach school children, guide tours, and help during special events. And the UA Museum docent program has been around for more than 40 years, almost as long as the museum has been located on the west ridge of the UAF campus. Museum docents Tim Doran, Judy Ferri, Avalon Wappett, and David Weissman, speak about how they became involved, how docenting is a team effort, an...
Arctic lands today are important breeding grounds for more than 200 species of birds, some of which migrate great distances to take advantage of the abundant summer resources. But this episode is not about them, but birds that lived in Alaska a long-long time ago. The Prince Creek formation of northern Alaska is the northernmost fossil-bearing Late Cretaceous ecosystem in the world. It possesses a remarkable collection of fossils, including dinosaurs, mammals, fishes, and birds. UAMN Curator ...
Welcome to season II, where we’ll continue to explore the stories and community of the museum. More from the students, more from the field, more memories of where we’ve been and how we get to tomorrow. And how appropriate to kick off the season with today’s conversation with museum Manager for Administrative Affairs, Emilie Nelson, a.k.a. H.R. Part of this discussion appeared in the last episode of the first season of the show, and I thought it appropriate to bring it back in the conte...
Museums are places of connection and relationship: visitor to visitor, visitor to object, object to community, community to future research – and there’s not a department within this museum that doesn’t foster and seek to grow all of those relationships. = Today on the podcast, conversations with two such departments, the museum’s offices of development and human resources. Person to person. Person to interest. And Interest to long-term relationship. The More You Look is a production...
Fisheries graduate student Sydney Almgren is studying Pacific Herring in the Bering Sea, their genetic diversity and the structure of the population, because it’s good to know what’s happening in the sea, it’s good to refine techniques and analysis for current and future work, and it’s good to be able to provide a better picture of the ocean to fisheries managers. In this episode a conversation with both Sydney Almgren and UAMN Curator of Fishes, Andres Lopez. The More You Look...
In the museum’s latest special exhibition, Thinking Made Visible, perception, communication, and invention are explored through nature journals and cartoons, maps and scientific fieldnotes, architectural, art, and exhibit design. Memory and sensory experience are given form by the humble sketchbook. In the course of developing the exhibit, museum staff conducted more than three dozen interviews and delighted in following those branching conversations, the cross-cutting themes and stories for ...
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