Outreach Highlights
National Geographic Wild Chronicles Highlights Yellowstone Microbes and TBI Scientists
Excerpts from a TBI film for national audiences will feature prominently in a National Geographic episode that airs on February 25th 2007. The television show Wild Chronicles will showcase excerpts from the 30 minute film Invisible Yellowstone that the Thermal Biology Institute produced with the Natural Science and Filmmaking program at MSU.
Yellowstone Microbes featured on National Geographic’s Wild Chronicles
Join host Boyd Matson on the television series "Wild Chronicles" each week for stories
of danger, survival and curiosity as he looks at the relationships between humans
and nature while highlighting breakthrough science and the promise it holds for the
future. Forty-two episodes are planned for the 2006-07 television season. Segments
feature both original reports from the field and updates on exciting discoveries.
Yellowstone research conducted by TBI researchers Tim McDermott, Bill Inskeep, Mark
Young, and Trevor Douglas is highlighted in Wild Chronicles episode #218, airing in
February on selected PBS stations.
This footage was excerpted from the 30-minute film Invisible Yellowstone, a TBI outreach product produced with the MSU Science Natural History filmmaking
program.
The episode will be offered via DVD and through the TBI webpage. "Wild Chronicles"
is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and presented on PBS by National
Geographic Society Mission Programs. It aims to undertake expeditions and scientific
investigations; encourage geography education for young people; and promote natural,
historical and cultural conservation.
For more information about Wild Chronicles, see: http://www.wliw.org/productions/wildchronicles.html