 | |  | | Chris Paola points out an experimental waterfall while a crew member captures the sound of rushing water |
| | |
Highlights included:
Big Back Yard Press Coverage:
Dragonfly TV, a nationally-distributed science program for youth produced by Twin Cities Public Television and supported by the National Science Foundation, used the Big Back Yard in July as a location to shoot segments for an episode about rivers and landscape processes. This episode has been produced and distributed to PBS stations across the U.S. for broadcast.
The Big Back Yard also secured coverage by all major media outlets, print and broadcast, in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
New York Times article on NCED Visualization:
The article: GeoWall Project Expands the Window Into Earth Science, Technology Section front page, March 3, 2005, featured NCED visualization specialist, Paul Morin.
Nova episode filmed at NCED: a NOVA-TV crew filmed an episode on channeled scablands at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. Featured were NCED Director Chris Paola and post-doc Juan Jose Fedele, along with Dr. Victor Baker of the University of Arizona. NCED's modeling expertise enabled to the film crew to capture a "re-enactment" of the events that Baker believes led to landforms seen today in the western United States.
NCED on the Mall, Washington, D.C.: NCED and USDA Forest Service promote river restoration research at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, June-July 2005.
| 
