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July 16, 2008: Credits

Web Site Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Rima Chaddha, Assistant Editor
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
David Levin, Assistant Editor
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Melissa Salpietra, Editorial Assistant
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Rachel VanCott, Intern
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer
Li Wei, Designer

Photo and Image Credits

Bird Brains

Bird Brains hub page
Image: (finch) © Eric Isselée/istockphoto.com

Name That Tune
Images: (brown thrasher) © Stephen Muskie/istockphoto.com; (common loon) © Paul Tessier/istockphoto.com; (wood thrush) © G. Bailey/VIREO; (northern mockingbird) © Robin Arnold/istockphoto.com; (alder flycatcher) © R. & N. Bowers/VIREO; (three-wattled bellbird) © Andrew Kratter; (barred owl) © Frank Leung/istockphoto.com; (winter wren) © G. Bartley/VIREO

Audio: (brown thrasher) Courtesy Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York; (all other audio tracks) from The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong by Donald Kroodsma © 2005 by Donald Kroodsma. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Ask the Expert
Image: (Ofer Tchernichovski) Courtesy Ofer Tchernichovski

Space Storms

Space Storms hub page
Image: (northern lights) © Danny Warren/istockphoto.com

Northern Lights
Images: (borealis over Finland) © Pekka Sakki/epa/Corbis; (borealis over Iceland) © Torleif Svensson/Corbis; (borealis over Alaska) Paul A. Souders/Corbis; (australis over Antarctica) © NASA; (Earth at night) © W. Sullivan/Photo Researchers; (ultraviolet image) © NASA/Photo Researchers; (North Pole from space) NASA/Photo Researchers; (Jupiter aurora, Saturn aurora) © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope; (animated auroras) © NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and The University of Iowa

Ask the Expert
Image: (Vassilis Angelopoulos) Courtesy Vassilis Angelopoulos

Profile: Yoky Matsuoka

Profile: Yoky Matsuoka hub page
Image: (Yoky Matsuoka) © WGBH Educational Foundation

Bionic Woman
Images: (all) Courtesy Yoky Matsuoka

Ask the Expert
Image: (Yoky Matsuoka) © WGBH Educational Foundation

Smart Bridges

Smart Bridges hub page
Image: (bridge) photo by Kristian Berg/© WGBH Educational Foundation

Bridge Doctors
Image: (Tobin Bridge) © Brandon Clark/istockphoto.com

Why They Failed
Images: (I-35W Mississippi River Bridge images) Courtesy Minnesota Department of Transportation; (Honeymoon Bridge) Courtesy Niagara Falls, Ontario Public Library; (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) Courtesy Tacoma Public Library, Richards Studio Collection; (Silver Bridge) Courtesy West Virginia State Archives, Maurice Hamill Collection; (West Side Highway) Courtesy Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record; (Mianus River Bridge) © AP Images; (San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge) Courtesy California Department of Transportation; (Songsu Bridge) © AP Images; (Bixby Creek Bridge) © Jerry Moorman/istockphoto.com

Ask the Expert
Image: (Jerome Lynch) Courtesy Jerome Lynch

Program Participants

Images: (all) © WGBH Educational Foundation

Production Credits

Bird Brains

Edited by
Jedd Ehrmann

Produced and Directed by
Terri Randall

Northern Lights

Edited by
Harlan Reiniger

Written, Produced and Directed by
Joseph McMaster

Yoky Matsuoka Profile

Edited by
Cherry Enoki

Produced by
Joshua Seftel & Ann S. Kim

Directed by
Joshua Seftel

Smart Bridges

Edited by
Ezra Gold & Robert Hutchings

Produced and Directed by
Kristian Berg


Executive Producer
Samuel Fine

Executive Editor
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Senior Series Producer
Vincent Liota

Supervising Producers
Stephen Sweigart
Joey David

Editorial Producer
Julia Cort

Development Producer
Vinita Mehta

Senior Editor
David Chmura

Online Editor
Laura Raimondo

Series Production Assistant
Fran Laks

Assistant Editors
Susan Perla
Tung-Jen (Sunny) Chiang

Compositors
Brian Edgerton
Yunsik Noh

Music
Rob Morsberger

NOVA scienceNOW series animation
Edgeworx

Associate Producers
Cully Gallagher
John Goebel
Daniel Sites
Anna Lee Strachan

Camera
John Chater
Austin de Besche
Brian Dowley
Joseph Friedman
Michael Phillips

Sound Recordists
Ray Day
Lee Frank
Lisa Johnson
Charlie Macarone
Myron Partman

Sound Mix
David Chmura

Animation
FIGG Bridge Engineers, Inc.
Anthony Kraus
David Margolies
Sputnik Animation
James LaPlante
Adam Tow

Production Assistants
Mona Damluji
Nadira Ilana
Drew Grimes
Elizabeth Stachow


For Lone Wolf Documentary Group

Executive Producer
Kirk Wolfinger

Production Manager
Donna Huttemann


For Twin Cities Public Television

Executive Producer
Richard Hudson

Managing producer
Lynn Winter

Archival Material
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Getty
Internet Moving Images Archive
ITN
Ville Karvinen
Knoxville Zoo
Jan Karel Lameer
The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
NASA
Penn State University Archives, Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Luc de Nil
WCCO-TV

Special Thanks
Simon Baker
Aleksander Chernucho
Dennis Kavlakoglu
Libby Lewis Photography
The Methodist Neurological Institute
Museum of Science and Industry
New York Presbyterian Hospital, the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell and Citigroup Biomedical Imaging Center
Ian Ryan
Phil Schneider
Sahar Salem
Veronica Smith
Francois Thibaut and The Language Workshop for Children
Waite House


Neil deGrasse Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.


NOVA scienceNOW Consortium Stations
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, NET
Public Broadcasting for Northern California, KQED
Twin Cities Public Television, TPT
Wisconsin Public Television, WPT


NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring
Rob Morsberger

Post Production Online Editor
Spencer Gentry

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

Publicity
Carole McFall
Eileen Campion
Lindsay de la Rigaudiere
Victoria Louie
Kate Becker

Senior researcher
Gaia Remerowski

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Paralegals
Raphael Nemes
Sarah Erlandson

Talent Relations
Scott Kardel, Esq.
Janice Flood

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen

Post Production Assistant
Darcy Forlenza

Associate Producer, Post Production
Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editors
Rebecca Nieto
Alex Kreuter

Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner

Compliance Manager
Linzy Emery

Business Manager
Joseph P. Tracy

Producers, Special Projects
Lisa Mirowitz
David Condon

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell


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