On and Off the Icefield: Hannah Perrine Mode

She Explores

Gale Straub

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4.6 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Anyone else a ‘bad’ science student in high school? For those who haven’t been indoctrinated, earth science can be all intimidating facts and hard edges. Hannah Perrine Mode is an abstract artist who has found a connection to science through her artwork. Her experiences as a science communicator as part of the Juneau Icefield Research Program in Alaska have opened her up to more diverse methods of sharing glacial and earth science with people - on and off the icefield.

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0:00.0	Before we get started just a couple of quick announcements. If you live in the Denver area
0:06.0	there are two She Explorers book events happening this week. The first is today Wednesday the 10th at 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Topa Designs flagship store.
0:15.6	No need to arrive right at 5. You can arrive anytime between 5 and 8.
0:19.7	I'll be there signing books and we'll have some wine from Essentially Geared Wine Co.
0:26.1	The second is on Thursday the 11th at 7 p.m. at Tadtered Cover Book Shop Aspen, in Littleton.
0:33.0	Two of the contributors who have also been featured on this podcast, Amanda Sandlin and Katie Fetters,
0:38.2	will be at the Littleton Bookstore, too.
0:40.7	Finally, I'll be at Backo Beyond Books in Moab, Utah with Katie Bouet on Tuesday the 16th.
0:47.0	That's a lot of info to keep track of.
0:48.6	I'll make sure to link it in the show notes. I hope I can see you there, but if you can't join us, I hope you'll join the She Explorers Podcast Facebook group.
0:57.0	It's a great place to connect.
0:59.0	Okay, on with the show.
1:03.4	I'm Gail Strob and you're listening to She Explores.
1:09.0	A couple years ago I was just doing some research into a family member. I'm actually named after this family
1:16.2	member. His name was Daniel Perrine and he is my great great great uncle. So he was my grandmother's great uncle and when I was little I heard
1:25.4	stories about him because he lived with my grandmother when she was when she was a child and
1:32.0	he was also just coincidentally an artist and I've inherited a lot of his
1:36.2	artworks but I kind of wanted to do more research into him and my grandma
1:42.2	has unfortunately passed away so I can't ask her anymore about it. And I was just
1:47.1	researching the town that my grandmother grew up in and also where he lived, which is a little town called Anna Illinois at the very
1:54.4	southern tip of Illinois and in doing that research for the town I I had sort of
2:01.6	known that there was some sort of family business that my grandmother's family had been a part of in that area, but it was very foggy and I didn't really know anything about what that family business was.
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