Forces of Nature was a commissioned multimedia performance for the finale of Light in Winter, January 2006. Images of the most dramatic forces of nature tell the story of how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes and floods affect our lives, to the live original music of Judy Hyman and friends.

Water is found everywhere on earth, it’s essential for life. It’s unique combination of physical properties are essential to the dynamics of all of earth’s systems. One of these properties that’s important to our story today is that water dissolves many many materials.
Water plays an important role in many of the Earth’s deep processes with the ability to penetrate even the smallest places and transport dissolved materials everywhere and anywhere underground.

We created this short science lesson using public domain animation to succinctly explain the hydrologic cycle and introduce some hydrologic vocabulary.