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The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific questions in the Last Frontier. Through a series of monthly episodes, the podcast will feature research stories ranging from volcanoes, earthquakes, and auroras to climate change, anthropology, paleontology and wildfires. Any natural phenomena in Alaska and the people who study them are fair game.
Hosted by Ned Rozell a science writer of more than two-and-a-half decades the podcast is a production of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. The first episode is now available and can be accessed on the web and on streaming services such as Spotify, Stitcher and Amazon Music. New episodes drop the first Tuesday of every month.
good monday morning. i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. and i m john muller. we begin with the deadly mudslides in washington state and desperate search for survivors. as the search and rescue progresses around the clock, the death toll is climbing. up to eight people dead and more than a dozen unaccounted for. these pictures show the scale of the mudslide. an entire side of the mountain gone in just seconds. abc s neal karlinksy has the latest. reporter: pictures from above show the full scope. it s as if half a mountain slid down on this rural community. a slide measuring a square mile in size. this is the carnage. this right here in front of me was the highway. home video from the ground makes it hard to tell there used to be anything here. survivors had to be plucked out by helicopter. the helicopter medevacing the mom and child, 5-month-old baby, out of here. still alive. reporter: that baby is hospitalized in critical condition. beneath all this mud, a
former governor sarah palin. this couldn t be more magnificent even the weather lightly overcast it is still beautiful. we are in valdez. this is the end of the pipeline, all the pipes in the north slope from the prudhoe bay area comes 800 miles down the pipeline through several different, going above ground, underground it mitly the oil ends up here. if you can look here you can see some of the storage tanks at the terminal. this is where the oil comes to. then transfered to tankers. tankers take it to the lower 48 or other destinations. you can see how beautiful it is. we did pass one homeland security coast guard boat so it is heavily patrolled no doubt because of the national security interests not only an koerbl not only associated to all our security in the united states. take a look at the mountains. look at the mountains and the storage tanks up there. absolutely fantastic. absolutely beautiful. what is over there? this is the ship escort, response system. get wha
former governor sarah palin. this couldn t be more magnificent even the weather lightly overcast it is still beautiful. we are in valdez. this is the end of the pipeline, all the pipes in the north slope from the prudhoe bay area comes 800 miles down the pipeline through several different, going above ground, underground it mitly the oil ends up here. if you can look here you can see some of the storage tanks at the terminal. this is where the oil comes to. then transfered to tankers. tankers take it to the lower 48 or other destinations. you can see how beautiful it is. we did pass one homeland security coast guard boat so it is heavily patrolled no doubt because of the national security interests not only an koerbl not only associated to all our security in the united states. take a look at the mountains. look at the mountains and the storage tanks up there. absolutely fantastic. absolutely beautiful. what is over there? this is the ship escort, response system. get wha
to 89 talking about the exxon valdez spill? yes. greta: where was that? 28 to 30 miles south of here. greta: were you working at that time? yeah, i went from washing dishes to a superintendent overnight. greta: superintendent of what? oil spill response for exxon. get did you have any experience? a little bit, not much. greta: i guess you got on-the-job experience? yes. nobody had experience in 89. greta: what was it like? it went from nothing to 15,000 people overnight in this town. greta: and the water there was no oil up here at port valdez. right now we are at port valdez the bay, we call it the port, there was nothing here. this wasn t here none of this stuff was here. greta: that s the safety protection stuff. yeah, those red tugs are super high horsepower 20,000