07x04 - Awesome Alaska

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(all)
Welcome to Seward!

(Gracie) We're surrounded
by water and mountains.

So y'all want
to head out there?

- (Gracie) Yeah, let's go.
- (Indigo) Sure.

(Gracie) I'm really excited to
do some citizen science.

(Indigo) We saw lots of
different shells and plants.

Whoa!

[laughs]

(cheerful music)

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(Izzie)
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Oh, wow.

Yesterday's storm
made a mess.

Oh, no.
Izzy, look!

Our home base for tag.

Oh.
And our lunch table.

[mysterious music]

(both)
Ugh! It's too heavy!

Oh.

We're supposed to take yearbook
pictures here tomorrow.

We've got to clean
this place up.

This could take all day.

[gasps] And Dad's making
tacos for dinner.

Izzy, I can't miss
taco night!

[laughs] Here.

Eat this while I check
with the SciGirls.

They'll know what to do.

[upbeat music]

[grunts]
Oh, nice.

Mm, cool, but, hmm,
maybe later.

[gasps]
Ooh! Yep.

This should do the trick.

♪ ♪

(Indigo) Look at that.
It, like, comes in.

It splits,
and then it goes out there.

Whoa.

[laughter]

(all)
Welcome to Seward!

When I heard I was
moving to Alaska,

I was really excited
because I knew

that I'd have
a lot more experiences.

Pretty much wherever
you go in Seward,

you're surrounded by nature--

probably one of the best
parts about this town.

I feel like I learn where
a new mural is every time

I talk to a tourist.

(Evie) Seward is a small
little tourist town

in the southern part of Alaska.

It is on the Kenai Peninsula,
so we're surrounded


It is on the Kenai Peninsula,
so we're surrounded

by water and mountains.

So this is kind of
the state of Alaska.

Seward's located around here.

It's exposed to the Gulf
of Alaska around here,

and it's just
south of Anchorage.

(Indigo) And it's a lot bigger
than people think.

Alaska is huge.

(Evie) Seward is surrounded
by glaciers.

(Gracie)
We have oceans.

We have mountains.
We have forests.

We also have a lot
of distinct animals.

Sea otters are,
like, weirdly big.

(Indigo) They remind me
of my cat Mavis.

It's just sort of, like, mixed
into your everyday life.

Like, there'll be a bear
in your backyard.

A lot of time we have
to, like, stop traffic

because there's
a mama and a baby,

like, crossing the road,
which is awesome.

[upbeat music]

Hi, my name is Indigo.

♪ ♪

I started being
interested in STEM

when I was in,
like, fourth grade.

I learned
that asking questions

was, like,
a big part of learning,

and it didn't mean you didn't
know what was happening.

It was just sort of like
a way of understanding.

I feel like I'm good at, like,
making other people feel calm.

Like, I freak out a lot.

Careful.

[laughs]

Don't hurt yourself.

(Indigo) But I'm very
reassuring to other people.

Indigo is one of the
most delightful people

to be around.

She's really relatable, and
she's one of the nicest people

I've ever met.

My name is Gracie.

I would say I'm pretty
observant and resourceful.

I like thinking
outside of the box.

I play guitar, and I listen to
music on my free time a lot.

I'm really passionate
about science and nature.

I just really like being able
to observe my surroundings,

and definitely living
in Seward

really just fosters that.

(Indigo)
Gracie's super fun.

She's always just been,
like, super supportive.

(Evie) I love listening
to her take on things.

She just has great
input and advice.

My name is Evie.

I love to learn,
regardless of the subject.

I really enjoy biology

and, branching off of that,
psychology.

I think humans are
really interesting,

and I'd love to know more about
how the human brain works.

My favorite outdoor activity
is hiking.

I love just walking
through the woods.

It's more fun than
walking on the sidewalk.

You see more things.

Red-legged kittiwakes live
a little farther up north

because they
don't do as well

with humans in their society.

(Gracie)
Man, Evie is one

of the most intelligent people
I've ever met.

Half the time,
I don't know what she means

because she's so smart.

(Evie) Gracie, Indigo, and I
are all academically focused,

but we have
very different interests.

We all work really
well together.

(Indigo) We just, like, order
of coffee, and we just,

like, talk about things
because we're

all in different schools, and
we just sort of, like, talk

about what's going on in
all of our different worlds.

[laughter]

This year was a really
big year for bird rehab.

We got a lot of eagles that
weren't doing well or trapped.

I work
at the Alaska Sealife Center,

which is a research and
rehabilitation facility,

and they also are
a public aquarium.

I'd love to head over to the
Alaska Sealife Center today.

Would you guys like to join me?

That would be awesome.

Definitely. Can't wait.


I'm really excited to explore
the Sealife Center

with Evie and Indigo

because I know that
Evie has a lot of information

about the Sealife Center.

I work as a ticketer
and an interpreter.

I'm looking at the animals,

and I'm telling the guests
about them.

If you put your finger
just between the spines

on the sea urchin, it'll give
your finger a little hug.

[Indigo gasps]

I really like seeing the
two sea lions, Mara and Pilot.

Pilot reached , pounds
earlier this summer.

♪

(Evie) "Observance
without disturbance."

It's really just
them interacting

in their natural environment.

(Indigo) Yeah, they're, like,
being observed,

but, like, we're not intruding
on their space.

I'm having a lot of fun.

It's really fun to, like,
hear Evie,

'cause she's,
like, a professional.

(Evie) I have been waiting
to info-dump

a lot of this information
for a very long time.

♪ ♪

Hello, I'm Evie, and one
of my favorite things

to do with my free time

is to play
tabletop role-playing games.

I actually run quite
a few for local kids,

including my little siblings.

One of my favorite things
in the world is language,

especially
the words that make it up.

My favorite word is
actually "temerity,"

which means
an excess of boldness.

It's also a synonym
for "audacity."

I told my friend that once,
and he said, oh, so you, right?

[chuckles]

This is one
of my most prized possessions.

He's a fake human skull,
and his name is Victor.

My little siblings gave him
to me for Christmas one year,

and he's sat at my desk ever
since, staring at me always.

One of my favorite things to do
is read.

I really like
all types of fiction.

I write down all
the little snippets

and quotes that I find
that I like,

and I put them
on this little quote wall.

It makes me really happy,

and it's something I've been
doing for years and years.

Cheers.

♪ ♪

Today we're meeting Kristen,
who studies Alaska's birds

and who works
at the Sealife Center.

- Hey, guys.
- (Gracie) Hey!

Welcome
to the Alaska Sealife Center.

I have the fun
job of taking care

of all the different
seabirds that we have here.

If you look right behind you,
we have our spectacled eiders,

and that's what we're going
to be working with today.

And this particular bird
is a threatened species

in the state of Alaska,
so there is a recovery team

in place to help this
threatened species recover

in the wild from some pretty
drastic population declines

that have happened.

What we're able to do
is collect

really valuable
baseline information,

so that's what you're
going to do with me today.

All right, you guys ready?

- (Gracie) Absolutely.
- Awesome. Let's go.

(Indigo) The first thing
we had to do

was to corral the birds
into a smaller enclosure.

This way a little bit.

[birds squawking softly]

Nice try.

So now we're going to
go out and get set up

to start processing
the birds we just put

into our capture cage, cool?

Sounds good.

All right.

Kristen invited us
to help weigh and swap

the spectacled eiders.

Dr. Emm's our veterinarian.

She's going to help
just make sure we've got

healthy birds on our hands.

Perfect.


Perfect.

All right, let's go put him in
his weight bucket.

I would help pick up
the spectacled eider,

put it in a bucket,

which had a scale
on top of it,

and from there, we were able
to gather its weight,

which I then told Evie,
and she wrote down.

You're also swabbing them to
test them for avian influenza.

These guys are called
spectacled eiders

because they get a ring
around their eye.

Oh, yeah.

Spectacled eiders
are a bigger duck.

They make little throat noises.

[all squawking softly]

(Evie) It's important for
scientists to collect data

from different
species of animals

because that gives
them a baseline

to compare other animals
of that species, too.

(Gracie) Spectacled eiders
in particular

are kind of
a threatened species,

so it's really important
to just kind of learn

what we can do
to help keep them

off the
Endangered Species List.

It was really
interesting handling

the spectacled eiders.

They are very, like, wiggly.

- Oh!
- Oh!

There she goes!
There she goes! Escaped!

(Gracie) They were really big,
and they were pretty strong.

They were really cool
to handle.

After we finished collecting
data out in the enclosure,

we headed inside
and took blood samples

from two of the birds.

And what are you looking
for in their blood?

This is kind of just
our baseline of trying

to get normal parameters.

There's not that many
spectacled eiders out there,

so we don't have that big of
a database of healthy kiddos

to compare to.

(Evie) The scientists
at the Alaska Sealife Center

analyze the blood
to look more closely

at how their animals
are doing.

The spectacled
eiders don't really show

outward signs of sickness,

and then they kind of slowly
get worse and worse and worse.

And if we don't take the blood,

then we don't see
what's happening

until it gets really serious.

♪ ♪

We took a look in
the lab with Hanna.

The next thing we're
going to be doing

is processing the blood.

These are ready to
go in the centrifuge.

Do you know the
ride where you stand

and it spins really fast?

Yep, this is the same method

to pull those
red blood cells down.

It was really amazing
to work with Hanna

and watch her use
the centrifuge,

microscope, and refractometer.

Holding it up
to the light,

do you see how
it's kind of darker

and then it gets that rainbow
lighter color,

kind of like an oil slick?

Yeah.

So when I'm actually
looking at the blood itself

and counting
white blood cells,

this is what
I'm going to be looking at.

(Gracie) There's a lot of
white blood cells in an area

that could tell us
that there's a virus

or just something wrong,

and the blood is working
to try to protect it.

Hanna, what's your
favorite part of your job?

I really like being able
to have hands on the animals,

like we did earlier
with the eiders,

but then come into the lab
and get our vets

the puzzle pieces they need
to look at animal health

as a whole.

If I were to work
at the Alaska Sealife Center,

I would like to be, like, up
close with the animals

helping out.

(Evie)
It is a compact facility

that does
such a broad range of things.

Everyone works
really well together.

I could honestly see myself
enjoying working

in almost
any department there.

Hi, I'm Gracie.

I'm .
I live in Seward, Alaska.

And here are a few
things that I like to do.


And here are a few
things that I like to do.

One of my favorite hobbies
is playing guitar.

[light melody playing]

♪ ♪

This is my cat Fifi.

[purrs and meows]

Along with
the electric guitar,

I also enjoy playing
the acoustic guitar.

♪ ♪

This is my dog Zoe.

[whines softly]

This is my leopard gecko
Toothless.

All right.
See you next time.

Bye.

[upbeat music]

(Indigo)
This is amazing.

We ended the day with Kristen
in the aviary,

where we got to weigh
some more birds and feed them.

The aviary
at the Alaska Sealife Center

is really interesting
because there's

a lot of different birds all
going about their business

at the same time.

The gulls are squawking,
the birds are splashing,

and it's just this
really chaotic

but also very well fitting
environment.

We just sat with a scale,

and the birds
just came up onto the scale.

So this is a horned puffin,
Denali.

Her weight was grams.

Horned puffins are called
horned puffins because they

do get a little horn.

It's that little line
right above their eye.

And they grow it just
for the breeding season.

Like bird mascara.

It is, yeah.
[laughter]

The birds have been trained
that if they get on the scale,

they get food.

So they sort of, over time,
slowly lined up and hopped on,

and we got their weight,
and we fed them fish,

and then they would go
on their way.

What we're able
to do with this data

is collect that over time
and over the course of the year

to kind of just show
weight trends for the species.

My favorite bird
was probably Portland.

Is that Portland?
The one--

It is, yes.

Good job.
[laughs]

Portland was
a red-legged kittiwake.

He was the first
bird that I was able to,

by looking at the sheet, like,
identify without any help.

He was very cute.
[laughs]

What are some ways that we
can help research and observe

just in our community?

That's a great question.

One of the best things
you can do

is just go outside
and look for birds.

And there's
a few different ways

that you can report the birds
that you see in your area,

and that actually is awesome
information for scientists

to be able to use.

(Indigo)
I had, like, a lot of fun

at the Alaska Sealife Center

because I normally just,
like, look at the exhibits,

but for the first time, I got
to go, like, behind the scenes

and sort of see
what it's actually like

and, like, all the care that
has to go into the animals,

and it's not just like, they're
there and they're healthy.

Okay, now that I'm, like,
getting into it,

I sort of love this.

I think that what we learned
at the Alaska Sealife Center

was really valuable.

We were inspired to go
collect some data of our own.

Data collection
is an everyday life skill.

It really can just help you
understand

how the world works in general.

♪ ♪


♪ ♪

(Indigo)
Today we're on Afognak Beach

looking at plants and organisms
and collecting data.

We learned
so much from Kristen

that we're really excited
to come out today

and apply some of those skills
out here.

[camera shutter clicks]

(Indigo) It's really low tide,
and we got tons of beach.

I'm thinking we'll
see maybe some worms,

a lot of marine plant life.

We have some
really nice tide pools today.

(Evie) I'm excited to kind of
trudge around the beach

and, you know, hopefully
not get my feet too wet.

I got some boots on,
but we'll see.

Y'all want to head out there?

- (Gracie) Yeah, let's go.
- (Indigo) Sure.

I'm really excited
to be out here today

and do some citizen science
of our own.

Citizen science is science
that nonprofessionals

can participate in.

(Indigo) Just, like,
normal people going out

and sort of documenting what
they see in every day,

like, nature
and what's around them.

It's really just science
that you do yourself

and can give back
to your community.

- What is that?
- (Gracie) Ooh, is that?

It kind of looks like
a crab shell or something.

I think it's a mushroom.

♪ ♪

- Do we want to share it?
- (Indigo) Yeah.

Just broadcast it
to the whole world.

Today we're using iNaturalist
app for collecting data.

(Indigo) And then that data,
that can be used

for scientists to, like, see
what's growing where

and where animals are.

Oh, I think it's a jellyfish.

Is this, like, a sea nettle?

(Indigo)
I think your phone will know.

[camera shutter clicks]

Nice.

(Indigo) I want to say it has
to do with a lion.

Or the lion's mane?
Okay.

Share.
[vocalizing]

So most of the species
I didn't know at all,

but that app
identifies it for you.

While we were on the beach,

we saw lots of different,
like, plants and shells.

Look at that
photogenic green goop.

- (Indigo) Yeah.
- Look at it. Look at it go.

Got some gutweed
on our hands.

(Gracie)
Cool.

(Evie) We saw a lot of kelp.
That was pretty predominant.

A couple of species of birds,

mainly eagles
and some seagulls.

I think it's a juvenile.

I think it's, like,
a juvenile bald eagle.

(Indigo) We even got to see
a family of river otters.

(Evie) Are those otters?
I think they're river otters.

(Gracie) Most of the time
when I'm identifying things,

I'm doing it alone.

But it was really nice to have
Evie and Indigo join me.

They knew some information.
I knew some information.

We were able to gather some
really good identifications

and observations.

It kind of looks like the
tide's coming in a little bit.

- (Indigo) Yeah.
- I think we should head back

and don't get washed away.

Cool.

♪ ♪

Hi. I'm Indigo.

I'm years old,
and I'm in th grade.

We're hiking up Mount Alice
to go blueberry picking,

and here's Seward.

Welcome to my room!

I love animals, and here's my
hamster, Coco Puff,

and my cat.

No.

I got Emma
from the Seward Animal Shelter

three years ago.

I love sewing, and one
of my most recent projects

was making a Victorian-era
fan front dress.

Bye!

♪ ♪

So, after collecting
data at the beach,


So, after collecting
data at the beach,

we went and sat down, looked
at all the data we collected.

(Indigo) We looked
at the surrounding area

and if other people had
seen what we had seen

and other different things
that maybe we had missed.

- So here are our observations.
- (Gracie) So cool.

We made this morning,

and of the species
were identified.

(Gracie) It was really
interesting to come back

and look at the data
on a computer,

because we were able
to obviously see the ones

that we identified, but we
could also see other people's

identifications in our area.

One observation.

So does that mean, like,
someone looked at it?

There were a few species

that we didn't know
that we identified,

but after a few hours,

we had some people
identify them for us.

Just getting a better
understanding of what we saw

was really helpful.

(Evie) So there's Afognak, and
there's Seward across the bay.

(Gracie)
Yeah.

(Evie) It's kind of cool
how data points

even go up into Mount Marathon.

(Indigo)
Yeah, and on the water.

The more people that document

what they see
by collecting data,

the better baseline we have.

You know, if we were
to sometime go out there

with more people,

imagine how much data
we could gather

to track these species.

(Indigo) We're really excited
to bring our friends

and show them
what we've learned

and also have them help us out
with collecting further data.

We could get so much more done
if we round up a team.

Clean up!
Clean up over here!

You can hold Fang
if you help us!

Huh.

Uh, how about we start
by asking some students?

Great idea.

And I'll order pizza,
lots of pizza.

♪

Thanks for coming today!

Together we'll make
Bakersfield schoolyard

even better than before!

[all cheering]

[laughs]
Jake, look!

We call ourselves
The Hammerheads.

[laughs]
What are you making?

It's a friend bench.

We recycled the wood
from the picnic table.

I love it.

So if you need a friend,

you sit here,
and someone comes over.

That's the idea.

[sniffing] Mmm.

What's that sweet smell?

Ah, lavender.

Butterflies love its nectar.

Just call us
the Butterfly Buds.

Yeah.

Oh, check out
all the Kindness Rocks.

[gasps]
Here's mine!

"Be kind."

[laughs] Sweet.

[school bell rings]

Uh-oh.

It's getting late, Izz.

Do you think we'll finish
everything

before Picture Day tomorrow?

Oh, you're right.
We need more help.

And I know just who to ask.

Come on.

(Gracie)
Today we're back at the beach

to collect some more data.

Thank you guys so much
for coming to join us

to collect more data.

I'm super excited.
Sorry it's a little rainy.

But, you know, that's okay.

(Gracie) We decided to invite
Josie and Izzie

to help us collect more data.

(Indigo) We decided
to split up in groups

so that we could collect
more data in different areas.

so that we could collect
more data in different areas.

Boom, boom, boom, smack.

♪

(Izzie)
It could be a black mussel.

Share?

Yeah, I think that's awesome.

And then we're all good
if you want to press share.

Fun.

Nice.

(Indigo)
Oh, look at this.

(Gracie)
It's a little bit rainy,

but it's made these
really awesome tide pools.

We've been able to find
some new species

that we didn't find yesterday.

(Izzie)
Oh, wow!

(Indigo) You see, it has, like,
neon pink on it.

The coolest thing I saw today
was probably the jellyfish

that was flipped upside down.

It looked like it had
pink neon spots on it.

It was really pretty.

(Gracie)
Oh, this is a moon jelly.

So we just found
a moon jelly over there,

and we were
kind of looking at it,

and it looked like
it was still moving,

so we decided to help release
it back into the ocean.

Be free.

♪

The mud sometimes
made it really difficult

to get around, but it was also
great for doing the splits.

Whoa!

You're going to
fall in the puddle!

(Evie) Because we split
into two groups,

we actually got
different data points.

Indigo and Izzie figured out
they could record sound,

so they got some data
on bird noises,

and we found the isopods.

We were really excited
to share our findings

with each other at the end.

Whoa!

(Izzie)
Give me this one.

It was really fun and cool
to come out here

and do some citizen science
with my friends.

I would totally
do this again.

Working it!

(Josie)
I'm done working it.

[laughs]

Let's see how many data points
we collected today.

- (Gracie) Yeah.
- (Indigo) Yeah.

It looks like we got
because we got yesterday,

and in total we have --
that's a lot.

- (Gracie) Yeah.
- (Evie) Yeah.

Over double.

- Yay!
- Good job.

Yeah, good job, guys.

[laughter]

It was really rewarding

to go out with friends
and collect more data,

and it was awesome
to see the results

that we had actually gained
a lot more information.

Today we're back
at the Alaska Sealife Center

to talk to Kristen again

and show her all the data
we collected.

So tell me a little bit about
what you guys have been up to.

(Gracie) There's a little bit
more data on the second day

- of that path.
- (Kristen) Mm-hmm.

That's because we actually
invited two more friends

to help us,
and we split up into groups

so we could cover more ground.

Yeah.
And that definitely helped.

We were able to collect a lot
more information and data.

(Kristen)
I didn't realize you guys

were looking at all different
types of organisms out there.

(Evie)
Yeah.

(Kristen) You guys were maybe,
like, tide pooling out there

a little bit, too,
it looks like?

- (Indigo) Yeah, definitely.
- That's really cool.

It was really nice sharing
our data with Kristen

because she was kind of
the reason why we went out

and did this citizen science.

We took what we learned
from her and then went out

and used it.

And then there was another
example of one organism

that we didn't know, and
someone actually identified it,

and they were, like,
a professional researcher.

There's just so many people
that are, like,

really qualified in what
they're doing,

helping us to identify things
that we didn't know.

Kristen seemed really impressed
by everything

we've done
over the past couple of days.

Not only are you guys
learning a bunch

of information for yourselves
about what's in our ecosystem


of information for yourselves
about what's in our ecosystem

- that we live in.
- (Gracie) Yeah.

Now you're posting it online

in a fashion that's readily
available for any scientist.

(Evie) Citizen science isn't
just useful for scientists.

It's also really useful
for people in general,

because they get
the information,

scientists get
other information,

and it all comes together
in the end.

I think it's amazing

that you guys took
the initiative to do this--

go out and collect data

on what's
in our local environment,

put it on this website
where people across the world

can access the data
that you collected

right here in our backyard,

and it provides information

to researchers
all over the world,

which is really,
really awesome.

I think you guys should be
really proud of what you did.

Yeah.

Well, thank you so much
because you're really

the reason that we went out
and did this.

You really inspired us.

- Go, team!
- (Kristen) Go, science!

- (Gracie) Yeah.
- (Evie) Science.

[laughter]

We're so lucky.
Like, look up.

It's, like, blue.
Like, actual blue.

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(Evie) I think one
of the most important things

I've taken away
from this experience

is that you can do
a little bit,

and it can still
make an impact.

You just got to
try a little bit.

(Indigo)
It really feels great

to know that I'm an active
member in the community

and that I am helping out.

I think it's crazy how,
like, abrupt it is.

- You know, it's like...
- (Gracie) Yeah.

It's like a wall kind of.

Just looking in those
two days, the amount

of things we were
able to identify

was really impressive.

I was really inspired
by my experiences with Kristen.

She really taught me a lot.

(Indigo) Citizen science
is really fun,

especially to do
with friends,

but it's awesome to also know

that it's helping
researchers out.

It's really just something
that you're doing

to help your community.

I mean--
Ooh, moon jelly!

(Gracie)
Ooh!

(Indigo)
I'm really excited

that I'll be able to continue
doing this,

even after all this
has happened

and be able to keep
helping out researchers

and keep documenting
things I see in nature.

I think was really awesome

to be able to do this
with Gracie and Evie

because we all had
already known each other,

but I think we got
a lot closer,

and they are just a great team
to work with.

My house will be appearing
on the left.

(Gracie) I'm so grateful that
I'm able to live in Seward

because it's
such a unique place to live.

(Evie) It's just so cool to
live in this unique place

and to see how people
are using this location

to help the broader world.

It was so cool that we
planted tomatoes and cucumbers

for our school lunches.

[laughs] I can't believe
Bakersfield has a garden now.

I know.

Our yearbook pictures
are going to be so fresh.

You know, we never would
have been able to make this

by ourselves.

Yep.
Teamwork rocks.

Oh, yeah.
This place rocks.

Looks like we're not
the only ones who think so.

[laughter]

(Krista) Welcome
to the Mississippi River.

(Laura)
What are some things

that end up polluting
our watershed?


that end up polluting
our watershed?

(Hope)
Here's another can.

We are making an art project

so it inspires other people
to help the environment.

(Krista)
It's a team effort.

(all)
River Rescuers!

(Reagan)
Congaree National Park

is very beautiful.

(Jayden) And it has
a very unique firefly

because they can blink
their lights at the same time.

In elementary school,

that's, like, the last time
I saw a firefly.

(Reagan)
Where they at now?

I'm excited to see a firefly.

- Ooh.
- (Jayden) That is so cool.

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