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Lisa Krynicki

Lisa Krynicki grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska. In 2013 and 2014, she was an intern with the Alaska and Polar Regions Collection & Archives and a research technician with Project Jukebox at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. While with Project Jukebox, Lisa worked on the conversion of old Community of Memory Project Jukeboxes to our Drupal 7 format and developed the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Project Jukebox. Lisa has a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Willamette University College of Law and a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University.
As Transcriber
Interview Title | Archive #: Oral History | Project | Abstract | Transcriber |
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Otis Ahkivgak, Part 1 | 97-64-05_PT.1 | Sea Ice in Northern Alaska |
This is a recording of Kenneth Toovak providing a verbal English summary translation of an interview he conducted in Iñupiaq with Otis Ahkivgak on December 8, 1979 in Barrow, Alaska. The interview was for UAF researchers Dr. Lewis Shapiro and Ron Metzner on the project Historical References to Ice Conditions Along the Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska (Scientific Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979). Kenneth summarizes each of the four original tapes made with Otis on separate new tapes. Ron Metzner is with Kenneth, asking clarifying questions. Unfortunately, the location of the original Iñupiaq tapes are unknown; the UAF Oral History Collection only has these English audio translations and their transcripts. In this first part of a four part interview recorded on January 6, 1980, Kenneth talks about Otis talking about ice conditions along the Beaufort Sea coast between Barrow and Barter Island, and life along the northern coast, including hunting, traveling, and trading at the trade fair at Niġliq on the Colville River. |
Lisa Krynicki |
Otis Ahkivgak, Part 2 | 97-64-05_PT.2 | Sea Ice in Northern Alaska |
This is a continuation of the recording of Kenneth Toovak providing a verbal English summary translation of an interview he conducted in Iñupiaq with Otis Ahkivgak on December 8, 1979 in Barrow, Alaska. The interview was for UAF researchers Dr. Lewis Shapiro and Ron Metzner on the project Historical References to Ice Conditions Along the Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska (Scientific Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979). Kenneth summarizes each of the four original tapes made with Otis on separate new tapes. Ron Metzner is with Kenneth, asking clarifying questions. Unfortunately, the location of the original Iñupiaq tapes is unknown; the UAF Oral History Collection only has these English audio translations and their transcripts. In this second part of a four part interview recorded on January 6, 1980 Kenneth talks about Otis talking about ice, wind and current on the Beaufort Sea coast around Beechey Point, Cape Halkett, Milne Point and Cross Island, getting caught out on the moving ice, and whaling at Cross Island. |
Lisa Krynicki |
Otis Ahkivgak, Part 3 | 97-64-05_PT.3 | Sea Ice in Northern Alaska |
This is a continuation of the recording of Kenneth Toovak providing a verbal English summary translation of an interview he conducted in Iñupiaq with Otis Ahkivgak on December 8, 1979 in Barrow, Alaska. The interview was for UAF researchers Dr. Lewis Shapiro and Ron Metzner on the project Historical References to Ice Conditions Along the Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska (Scientific Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979). Kenneth summarizes each of the four original tapes made with Otis on separate new tapes. Ron Metzner is with Kenneth, asking clarifying questions. Unfortunately, the location of the original Iñupiaq tapes is unknown; the UAF Oral History Collection only has these English audio translations and their transcripts. In this third part of a four part interview recorded on June 3, 1981, Kenneth talks about Otis talking about ice movement and piling up on barrier islands, ice conditions on the Beaufort Sea coast, and whaling. |
Lisa Krynicki |
Otis Ahkivgak, Part 4 | 97-64-05_PT.4 | Sea Ice in Northern Alaska |
This is a continuation of the recording of Kenneth Toovak providing a verbal English summary translation of an interview he conducted in Iñupiaq with Otis Ahkivgak on December 8, 1979 in Barrow, Alaska. The interview was for UAF researchers Dr. Lewis Shapiro and Ron Metzner on the project Historical References to Ice Conditions Along the Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska (Scientific Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979). Kenneth summarizes each of the four original tapes made with Otis on separate new tapes. Ron Metzner is with Kenneth, asking clarifying questions. Unfortunately, the location of the original Iñupiaq tapes is unknown; the UAF Oral History Collection only has these English audio translations and their transcripts. In this fourth part of a four part interview recorded on June 3, 1981, Kenneth talks about Otis talking about learning about ice, wind and current and a big ice pileup in front of Barrow. Otis also told a story about a man who behaved badly and drifted out on the ice but returned home only to be crushed by ice piling up and collapsing on his sod house. |
Lisa Krynicki |
Harry Brower, Sr. | 97-64-06 | Sea Ice in Northern Alaska |
Harry Brower, Sr. was interviewed on November 7, 1979 by Ron Metzner in Barrow, Alaska for a project related to potential oil development of the Alaskan continental shelf. Interviews from this project appear in Historical References to Ice Conditions Along the Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska (Scientific Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979). However, Harry Brower's interview was not included in the publication. In this interview, Harry talks about sea ice movement at Cape Halkett and around Barrow, Alaska, and his own experience with being out on moving ice. He also discusses ice pile ups, changes in the sea ice, and the year the ice did not go out in Barrow (1975). |
Lisa Krynicki |