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Completed in 2004 Client: The Salvadori Center 1:47

Lofty Estimates

Middle school students use a giant protractor in the field, learning how trigonometry helps surveyors determine the height of a building that is far away. The students help each other to use a tape measure and a trig table that they call “that tangent thing”, to make their calculations.

Accommodations to Keep the Best

Clara Johnson, a lifelong employee of the USDA’s Forest Service, a Federal agency, describes her work-life and shows her career continuing as her life changes, revealing the layers of accommodations enabling this.

The Worldwide Hydrologic Cycle Project

The WorldWide Hydrologic Cycle Project is a multi-language, cross-cultural project that encourages people to translate our two and a half minute film “The Hydrologic Cycle” into any language and any musical style.

Yuri’s Night, Ithaca, New York

A musical tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, created for theatrical performance on Yuri’s night, April 12, at Ithaca’s Science Cabaret. The event included presentations from space scientists in a cabaret setting.