Lynn Ware Peek
Producer/ Co-HostLynn Ware Peek is a long-time contributor to KPCW. She joined the station in 2008 with Tales from the Wasatch Back, was a reporter from 2012 to 2016, and co-hosts and produces two of KPCW’s Public Affairs Hour shows, The Mountain Life, on health and lifestyle airing Wednesdays and Cool Science Radio, tackling science and technology every Thursday.
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In our ongoing series exploring mountain living publications, Greg Hanscom, publisher and editor of High Country News, talks about the culture and importance of bringing stories of the mountain west to its inhabitants.Then, a program called Discover Term was created to instill foundational principles that empower teens to fulfill their potential. There's a surf term in Costa Rica or ski term in Colorado... how does that sound instead of school?! Director Garrett Weber-Gale and student Alice Hughes share more about the program. -
In our ongoing series exploring mountain living publications, Greg Hanscom, publisher and editor of High Country News, talks about the culture and importance of bringing stories of the mountain west to its inhabitants. -
Skiing and surfing anyone? Discover Term is a program to encourage teens to discover more about themselves and their potential. We speak with local student Alice Hughes about her experience and Garrett Weber-Gale, the director of Discover Term. -
University of Michigan geology professor, Nathan Niemi, delves into the university's yearly summer geology field camp here in the western U.S., or what they like to call the best field trip ever. (0:57)Then, University of Utah Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Jessica Swanson, shares her research on using biological methods to remove excess methane from the atmosphere. (24:58) -
Thanks to research being done through the Swanson Group at the University of Utah, biological methods for removing excess methane from the atmosphere are being created. -
Every summer groups of senior-year geology students ascend to Utah and Wyoming to attend Camp Davis. There they can see and study, firsthand, the landscapes, formations and geology that they have only seen in books. -
Dr. Carrie Jaworski, a sports medicine physician at Intermountain Park City Hospital’s sports performance center, previews a speaker series Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. at the Blair Education Center. The three-part series focuses on helping young female athletes thrive.Then, local resident Amy McDonald, founder and director of Brolly Arts discusses how a movement called Illusion of Abundance (IOA), a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project, exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake.
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Local resident Amy McDonald, founder and director of Brolly Arts discusses how a movement called Illusion of Abundance (IOA), a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project, exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake. -
Dr. Carrie Jaworski, a sports medicine physician at Intermountain Park City Hospital’s sports performance center, previews a speaker series Tuesday, April 30 at 6 p.m. at the Blair Education Center. The three-part speaker series focuses on helping young female athletes thrive. -
Professor Jeff Karp, teaches biomedical engineering at Harvard Medical School and MIT joins the show to talk about the brain's neuroplasticity and how he adapted his brain to tackle his early learning disabilities and ADHD and shares how you can too.Then, biomedical engineer and blunt trauma specialist, Rachel Lance, explores how a team of scientists during World War II made science history by discovering how to breathe underwater, a crucial element in an eventual victory for Allied forces.
