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A three-year expedition has been undertaken by the ship, Odyssey to gather the first ever baseline data on levels of synthetic contaminants throughout the world’s oceans. It will use whales, albatrosses and pelagic fish as indicator species for measuring the health of the seas. The website provides oral reports and commentary from events in the journey so far and the sound quality provided by RealPlayer is excellent. The section ‘Interactive Ocean’ allows visitors to enter and tour the Odyssey, hear sounds of animals from the oceans and a look through the bowcam, a camera mounted at the bottom of the ship. Periodic film reports are also made from the Odyssey. These include short documentaries on marine animals and plants around the globe. Documentaries are also given on filming techniques and environmental issues.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska a grant to place several video cameras on nearby Gull Island in Kachemak Bay for the study of marine and coastal wildlife. These ‘electronic companions’ can be both controlled on-site and remotely from the museum and viewing stations. Visitors to the website can see six video clips including those taken by cameras in coastal bird colonies and underwater. Informative narration and text accompanies the film, which is seen via Real.
Very impressive collection of short animated videos from the photomicrograph collections of Florida State University, being ‘time-lapse digital image sequences that explore the effect of rotating polarization, sample rotation, and crystallization as it actually appears under the microscope.' The videos can be streamed using Real Player to suit low or high bandwidths (from 14.4K up to T1 or DSL connections), with a selection of uncompressed digital videos available as AVI downloads. The videos are available in four ‘galleries’: Chemical Crystals, Pond Life, the QX3 Microscope Time-Lapse Movie Gallery , and the Nikon MicroscopyU Digital Movie Gallery , and each comes with supporting descriptions.
Scientific American Frontiers is an American television series hosted by Alan Alda and broadcast on PBS. Its site gives the current TV schedule, teaching materials, and a very impressive video archive of past programmes, searchable by topic or keyword. This offers either complete programmes or segments using Real or Windows Media Player, for low or high-band connections, with most having an accompanying transcript where users can click on a particular point in the transcript to access that point in the video. Topics covered include archaeology, astronomy, biology/nature, chemistry/physics, computers/technology, earth science, engineering/mathematics, medicine/health, and psychology/cognitive science. Some have links to PBS web features, teaching guides etc.
This video subscription service offers very high quality QuickTime movies. The very high resolution samples on this site are of quite spectacular quality, but will require at 150mbs of free memory to play or the computer will crash. A few clips are available free, but otherwise a subscription is required. The movies are organised by genre (people, places, music, events etc.).
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