Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Vlog: 14 Facts About Monarch Butterflies
Synopsis: While down in the Ozarks shooting a story about prescribed fires, this group of students were collecting and tagging Monarch butterflies as part of the University of Kansas’ Monarch Watch program. I thought it would be fun to have the kids tell me one thing I wouldn’t know about Monarchs.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Monarch Butterflies Tagged for Trip South
Synopsis: My first segment from my recent trip to Arkansas to cover the Fire Learning Network - a collaboration between state and federal agencies and private groups to reintroduce prescribed burning into the Ozark Mountains.
I spent a good deal of the trip covering the FLN, but one afternoon a group of 4th graders came out […]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Podcasts!
So I work on some podcasts, well, namely the Discovery News Friday News Feedbag, where Will Johnson, James Williams and myself bring you the best of week’s strange science, bold breakthroughs and off-the-wall discoveries. Or something like that. The other podcast is just another way to download some of the videos we do for Discovery […]
No Comments » - Posted in Work, Multimedia by Jorge Ribas
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Star Wars, nothing but Star Waaaars!
Explanation: This is a multimedia presentation I worked on right at the Arizona Daily Star before the release of Revenge of the Sith. None of the back-end programming was done by me, but I assisted on the design and concept, as well as on the content. It’s really well-designed and slick (thanks to Kerry Dinsmore), […]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
The Skinny on What’s Down the Drain
Synopsis: This was shot back in August ‘07 at the Easton Wastewater Treatment Facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore (noticing a theme here?). With one of our Z1Us on the fritz and another on a shoot, I was had to dig down and use an older Canon SD to shoot this. The results were ok, but […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Wye House series
This is a series I did from the Wye House archaeological dig near Easton, Maryland. University of Maryland researchers had spent three years on this site - a former slave village that was once the childhood home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. I edited two segments on the dig, plus a more casual “Cool Jobs” feature […]
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Zoo Logic!
Here are the first three episodes of a series I’m doing from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo called “Zoo Logic.” For each segment, we’ll highlight an animal that may not be on the top of everyone’s list of “must-see” animals when they visit the zoo. Basically, no pandas. Thanks to my colleague Kasey-Dee Gardner for helping […]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Series
Explanation: This is a series I did for Discovery News documenting the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology’s search for the elusive, at best - or extinct, at worst - Ivory-billed Woodpecker. I was only down in the bayou for two days, but they were long days, and I got enough footage for 4 segments, which […]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Scientists Use New Tool To Control Deer
Synopsis: This was really one of my first pieces where I went out in the field and shot with my subjects.
Blurb: Researchers are testing a new contraceptive vaccine as a means to control a white-tailed deer population that is devastating yards, farms and forests. Jorge Ribas tags along.
Explanation: This is one of my earlier […]
