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  Perpetual Ocean from NASA

  April 25, 2012 / Video

  Insight into large-scale global climate and local weather patterns is an important knowledge base for understanding nature. Majority of our planet is covered by oceans therefore understanding ocean dynamics is key for making climatic forecasts. Here you can watch a video with captions made by joining four interrelated animations produced by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. All animations were based on simulations of high resolution satellite data on an impressively realistic General Circulation Model (GCMs) that NASA uses called ECCO2 (Estimating [...]

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  A Tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Cries from the Deep (1981)

  April 11, 2012 / Video

  Ever since the publication of his first book titled “The Silent World” in 1953 Jacques Yves Cousteau has generated multiple waves of inspiration worldwide. A documentary produced under the same title won the prestigious Palm d’Or award at Cannes Film Festival in 1956. This is a rare achievement among nature documentaries. Cousteau’s second big hit arrived in 1965 with another production titled World Without Sun documenting activities of six crew members living in Continental Shelf Station II at 10m depth [...]

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  Nesting Chestnut Mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii)

  April 9, 2012 / 2010 Documentaries, Natural history, Short Observations, Video, Wildlife Documentaries

  Filmed and edited by by Jean and Phil Slosberg in 2010 the sequence of events captured provides a nice basis for telling the natural history of chestnut-mandibled toucans. Slosbergs were able to record the nest preparation, parental care and nest maintenance phases from their home in Costa Rica. They note that after a sucessful breeding season the pair tried to nest in the same tree again in 2011 but were not successful because meliponid stingless bees have taken over the [...]

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