The gig has taken Ned Rozell on adventures across Alaska, from Mount Katmai to the Nogahabara Dunes and Kiska Island.
Ned Rozell sits at the edge of the volcanic crater on Mount Katmai during a trip to the Valley of 10,000 Smokes in 2001.
The public relations soft-sell known as the Alaska Science Forum predates my arrival by a long shot. In 1976, Geophysical Institute researcher Neil Davis — who among his many other accomplishments helped Poker Flat Research Range rise from the boreal forest north of Fairbanks — sat down and listened to UAF history professor Claus-M. Naske. Naske spoke of a “growing gap between progress in the sciences and what the public knew about science,” wrote my predecessor Carla Helfferich.
I didn’t see the digital era coming when I walked out of my final UAF journalism class in the Bunnell Building. Now I realize how lucky I was to answer that classified ad; it led to an abnormally stable writing job. My favorite weeks are the ones I travel with scientists to explore somewhere I haven’t been before. I can dig holes or carry batteries for them, while also guaranteeing that a story about their work will appear in some form of Alaska media.
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