Press Release
Learn More About Your World and Earth Events With American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins
at The Wildlife Experience
DENVER- January 23, 2004 - The Wildlife Experience is presenting several new Science Bulletins and Data Visualizations that highlight scientific curiosities from around the globe. These videos and animations are made possible by one of The Wildlife Experience's partnerships, the American Museum of Natural History.
Surveying Vietnam: Collecting Plants for Conservation is a video Bio Bulletin that follows an international team of botanists on a search for new plant species in northern Vietnam. Their work reveals the excitement involved in documenting biodiversity in a region that has become accessible to scientists only recently. Surveying Vietnam: Collecting Plants for Conservation is currently available for viewing.
Learn about dynamic plant life in the oceans with Ocean Productivity. This Data Visualization from Bio Bulletin reveals seasonal and annual patterns in the growth rate, or productivity, of phytoplankton: the microscopic, sea-dwelling plants that are the foundation of the entire oceanic food web. Information about these plants is gathered from satellites, providing a global view of life's responses to changing seasons. Ocean Productivity is currently showing at The Wildlife Experience.
The feature video from the Earth Bulletin is The Rise of Oxygen. This video follows scientists' efforts to discover where this key element to Earth's success originated. Researchers are getting closer to understanding the origin of oxygen and The Rise of Oxygen illustrates their methods and resources for their studies. The Rise of Oxygen begins at The Wildlife Experience on February 27, 2004.
The last of these Science Bulletins addresses a prominent global concern, the depletion of the ozone layer. Ozone in the stratosphere acts as a shield against the Sun's dangerous ultraviolet radiation. The ozone shield is not static; ozone is naturally created and destroyed, and it is unevenly distributed by atmospheric winds. This data visualization from Earth Bulletin reveals the destructive impact that manmade chlorofluorocarbons have had on atmospheric ozone in recent years. This year, ozone levels over the Antarctic have dropped by half compared to 1980, creating the second-largest ozone "hole" in modern memory. Ozone is currently showing.
The Wildlife Experience is proud to have teamed up with the American Museum of Natural History to provide these intriguing and informative Science Bulletins. They provide insight on current earth and scientific events and a deeper understanding of our dynamic planet.
For more information about The Wildlife Experience and the American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins, please call (720) 488-3300. "
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