Pamela McCall
KUER Morning Edition Host
Pamela is a dual citizen who hails from Canada and has been wandering the planet as a journalist. Vancouver, Hong Kong, London, New York and Seattle have been along her well-trodden path. She’s worked for the BBC World Service, CBS News Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. On 9-11, Pamela was an eyewitness to the collapse of the World Trade Center. Her love of skiing, mountains and radio has brought her back to Salt Lake City, where she covered ski racing during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Pamela is a certified ski instructor and a fledgling cook who admits to not being fully domesticated. She drove her well-worn car with her beloved kitty Possum through one Canadian province and three states to arrive at her new home at the foot of the Wasatch mountains.
Exposed microbialites dry out and die as the Great Salt Lake shrinks, Aug. 19, 2022. (Dane Christiansen)
“The Edge of Something” is author and playwright Elaine Jarvik ’s emotional short story. The backdrop is the dwindling Great Salt Lake. Her work appears in the Great Salt Lake Anthology. In Jarvik’s t...
The usual drought talk about clouds asks when and where it will rain. Not this time. We’re still talking about the cloud, but now we’re focused on the computers that power it — and the water used to c...
Winds whip toxic dust from the exposed lakebed left behind by the receding Great Salt Lake. Molly Blakowski / Utah State University
The scenario reads more like apocalyptic science fiction than reality. The Great Salt Lake recedes and an ecological disaster, fanned by the wind, hits the Wasatch Front. But it’s not fiction. A team...