ACEP Storyteller Featured in Northern Soundings Radio Program
This past summer, University of ĐÓ°Épro 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 , ĐÓ°Épro in Conversation.” They discussed that while forest fires have always been vital to ĐÓ°Épro’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 ĐÓ°Épro’s NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The project conducts research into changes to fire risk and behavior in ĐÓ°Épro’s boreal forest. It also investigates changes to physical and chemical variables that influence biological communities in the nearshore Gulf of ĐÓ°Épro.
Jennifer Schmidt (l) and Amanda Byrd (r) during an interview for the film. Photo by Mike Mathers.