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Outreach > WHOI in the News
WHOI in the News
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Geologist
Jeff Donnelly (with cap) with the Ocean Science Journalism
Fellows in the marsh at Wood Neck Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts,
explaining how sediment cores are used to study the impact
of major hurricanes and storms on coastal marshes. (Photo
by Dave Gray)
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| Marine Meteorologist
Jim Edson (top center, with white folder) explains operations
at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory during an
August boat trip to the site for federal agency representatives,
local officials, and members of the media. (Photo by Jayne
Doucette) |
Circulation of print media featuring WHOI
(in millions)
Viewership of television programs featuring WHOI
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Print and broadcast stories featuring WHOI science reached a potential audience of 121 million in 2003.
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The impact of oil on the marine environment, abrupt climate
change, noise and marine mammals, and new undersea exploration
vehicles were among the WHOI science and engineering activities
attracting international media interest in 2003. Several thousand
requests for images and information were received from organizations
as diverse as The National Academies, W.W. Norton Publishers,
the National Science Foundation, Polish Scientific Publishers,
The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and the Museo Tridentino
di Scienze Naturali in Italy. A live Web link from R/V Atlantis
to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey in August was one
of a number of WHOI outreach activities related to the IMAX
film Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, which featured dives
in the submersible Alvin. The film was released nationwide
in September.
In the United States and abroad, hundreds of articles appeared
in print and broadcast media, such as Newsweek, Astrobiology
Magazine, Marine Scientist, Science, Harvard
Magazine, and National Geographic Magazine, and
many programs were broadcast by National Public Radio, NBC,
CBS, Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, PBS, The Learning
Channel, The History Channel, and The Travel Channel.
Other highlights for 2003 include:
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) interviewed
Lloyd Keigwin, Terry Joyce, and WHOI President and Director
Bob Gagosian for The Big Chill, a one-hour program
on abrupt climate change.
- WHOI presented its first Ocean Science Journalism Award
to Alastair Fothergill of the BBC for the television series
Blue Planet: Seas of Life and to Robert Kunzig
for the book Mapping the Deep. The awards ceremony
and a press briefing on autonomous underwater vehicles were
held in New York City in October.
- Seven journalists from newspapers, magazines, Web sites and television stations nationwide gathered at WHOI in September for an intense week of study during the fourth annual Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program. Thirty-three journalists have participated in the program since it began in 2000. Among the many journalists to visit WHOI during
the year were 10 international Knight Science Journalism Fellows from MIT, who came in October.
—Shelley Dawicki (sdawicki@whoi.edu)
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