Video introduction to my research
Art-science videos
- In a Time of Change: Threshold 32F – FILM TRAILER. Featuring collaborative art-poetry-science project by Klara Maisch, Debbie Moderow, and Rebecca Hewitt. Film by Maya Salganek. Music by Sean Dowgray. October, 2025.
- In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories OPENING PRESENTATION. Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska. May 2025.
- In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories LIVE PERFORMANCE. September, 2022. Fairbanks, Alaska.
- In a Time of Change: Microbial Worlds – a collaborative arts-humanities-science exhibit WEBINAR. Hosted by Oregon State University. Includes virtual exhibit video, slide presentation by MB Leigh, and panel discussion with Microbial Worlds artists. October 7, 2020.
- The Art of Microbiology: Discovering the microbial world through art-science integration. Presented at The Night of the Microbes, special public event hosted by the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Leipzig, Germany, August 15, 2018. (Leigh’s presentation begins at 32 minutes into the video)
- Seeing the Elephant: Towards Reintegration of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. TEDx Fairbanks. Feb. 21, 2016.
Press
Links to selected press, publications, and videos.
- What Happens When the Ice Melts? Three Women in Alaska Are Sounding an Alarm – by Adam Popescu. The New York Times. October 19, 2025.
- Where Art Meets Research at the Top of the World – Alta, September 19, 2025
- Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program – LTER Network News, March 31, 2025
- Maisch, Klara, Debbie Clarke Moderow, and Rebecca E. Hewitt. Threshold 32°F: Art, Poetry & Field Notes. Terrain.org, June 27, 2025.
- Maisch, K, DC Moderow, and RE Hewitt. Threshold 32ºF (excerpt). One Earth, Volume 8, Issue 8, 101423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101423.
- Students reflect on Boreal Echoes, exhibit that mixes art and science – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sep. 24, 2024
- Art, Science and the Boreal Forest sewn together in exhibit – KUAC Science and Technology, Sep. 23, 2024
- In a Time of Change: Boreal Echoes exhibition – UAF News, Sep. 9, 2024
- Solace of Circles by Klara Maisch and Debbie Clarke Moderow. Permafrost Magazine 45.2. April, 2025.
- Point of View Boreal Forest Stories in the Time of Change (requires subscription) – Homer News, 2023
- ‘In the Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories’ exhibit opens at the Pratt Museum – Homer News, June 1, 2023
- Percussionist Sean Dowgray to perform climate change-inspired original music – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sep 14, 2022
- In Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories” melds art and science – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sep. 8, 2022
- Arctic Fest Melds Art, Science, Culture, Community – Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sep. 4, 2022
- Arctic Fest 2022 combines arts, science, Indigenous perspectives – UAF News, Aug. 18, 2022
- Microbial Worlds. By Emilie Springer. KBBI radio, Homer, Alaska. June 21, 2021.
- “Microbial Worlds” blends science, art. By Michael Armstrong. Homer News. June 10, 2021.
- The Pollution Plumes of North Pole. By Lois Parshley. Environmental Health News. April 19, 2021.
- Long-term Ecological Reflections: Art + Science at Bonanza Creek, Alaska. By Shelley Stonebrook. Terrain.org. May 27, 2020.
- Viral Mysteries – discussion with radio journalist Robert Hannon on Northern Soundings and KUAC public radio. April 1, 2020.
- Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute 20-year retrospective video.
- Fairbanks researcher discusses discovery of sulfolane-eating microbe. KTVF Newschannel 11, Jan. 16, 2020.
- Finicky Microbes (Highlighting research on sulfolane-biodegrading microbes in the North Pole aquifer). Northern Soundings: Alaska in Conversation, Jan. 14, 2020
- UAF researchers discover sulfolane-eating microbe. UAF News and Information, Dec. 13, 2019.
- Art, Science, Empathy, Action, Agate, Dec. 15, 2018
- Time for Change, HandEye, February 21, 2018
- Microbial Worlds interview, readings, and commentary Alaska News Nightly, January 6, 2018
- Microbial Worlds: Art of the Microscope – Northern Soundings Interview with Mary Beth Leigh, January 2018
- Microbiologist mixes science and art – Fairbanks Daily News Miner, February 13, 2017
- Art and science collide in ‘Microbial Worlds’ – The UAF Sun Star, February 12, 2017
- Interpreting the Tiny – Fairbanks Daily News Miner, February 12, 2017
- Art Exhibit Magnifies the World of Microorganisms – UAF Cornerstone, February 3, 2017
- New exhibit explores the world of microbes as a world of art – Fairbanks Daily News Miner, February 1, 2017