Information about mapping floodplains from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory is currently being featured in a new display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The exhibition will be housed in the museum's Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth as part of the "Earthworks" section, which will also feature volcanoes, earthquakes, storms, and other earth-shaping natural events.
The Flood Observatory is partly funded by a grant from NASA, according to Geography Professor Robert Brakenridge, who, along with research assistant Elaine Anderson '83, is in charge of the observatory.
The museum, which also has a relationship with NASA, chose to feature Dartmouth after seeing an article about the observatory on NASA's website, said Lily Leopold Saint, senior visual researcher at the museum.
The display will feature satellite maps of floods. Saint describes it as being "part of the earth events wall, projected onto a high-definition screen."
The museum sent a film crew to Dartmouth last Friday to shoot a video of Brakenridge, to be used as part of the display.
Though Brakenridge declared that "it was a big production," taking four hours to film, Saint said the actual clip shown in the museum display will be trimmed down to about a minute and a half.
The exhibit will be at the museum for the next two months.
