Tag Archives: Talk of the Rock

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with local members of the Alaska Farm Bureau, Lorne White and Marie Rice. They’ll catch up on what the bureau is doing and also speak about some of their most experimental crops.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with PhD candidate Elizabeth Figus, who’s researching the benefits of electronic monitoring versus observers and how to incorporate fishermen’s preferences into bycatch management. Figus wants to thank her funders: The National Science Foundation Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic & Subarctic IGERT, The Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center of …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A University of Alaska Fairbanks PhD candidate is studying how halibut fishermen feel about bycatch and data collection. Elizabeth Figus says in spring 2015, she went to four different halibut fishing communities in Southeast and interviewed 78 fishermen. She says one preliminary finding pointed to fishermen’s opinions about monitoring methods and the observer program. “I found that pretty …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with some local professionals about the winter blues and the mood changes some people experience as the hours of daylight decrease. Mental health therapist Susan Philo and school clinician Jolene Rogers from the Providence Counseling Center drop by.

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches sits down with former Alutiiq Museum Executive Director Sven Haakanson to speak about building the historic open boat, the angyaaq. Haakanson made some finishing touches on a full-sized vessel with members of the Akhiok community this summer. He’s also researched and built one in Seattle, where he serves as Curator …

Keyboard. Clare Black / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT A group of local industry leaders which originally set out to analyze and improve Kodiak’s job market is making a comeback. Jared Griffin, a professor at Kodiak College, says the Kodiak Workforce Regional Advisory Council was active a few years ago and put together a survey of local businesses to determine patterns, hiring …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with a team combining science and tradition to make one food safe to eat. Regulated organizations under the State of Alaska Food Safety and Sanitation Program are not allowed to accept or distribute seal oil due to the danger of botulism, a potentially fatal disease caused by bacteria in …

On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with two researchers behind an ongoing study of berries on the island. Biologist Bill Pyle from the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and Nate Svoboda from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game join.

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with the University of Montana’s Will Deacy and the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge’s Bill Leacock, who’ve been studying the bear population in southwest Kodiak for the last few years. They talk about salmon runs, bear diets, and the patterns they’ve observed in the area. Edit 6/28: The Kodiak National Wildlife …

On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with two food co-op organizers, Dana Myers from the Kodiak Bounty Cooperative and Healthy Tomorrows Executive Director, Merissa Koller Williams, who’s putting together a food co-op with a committee as part of a year-long Kodiak initiatives plan. Koller Williams is currently in the process of requesting public input from Kodiak …