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Science writer Carolyn Collins Petersen is vice-president of Loch Ness Productions, an innovative company that provides content for fulldome theaters, exhibits, and outreach for observatories.
She has written several books, many documentary scripts, science articles, and museum exhibits on the subjects of astronomy, climate change, and space weather. Carolyn is a Fellow of the International Planetarium Society and a long-time member of the American Astronomical Society. She has a masters degree in journalism and mass communications, and while in graduate school served as a research associate for the International Halley Watch, and worked on a Hubble Space Telescope instrument team. Read more about Carolyn here.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Reflecting on One Kind of Reality for Fulldome
This month I and my Loch Ness Productions colleague Mark C. Petersen had
the opportunity to see the last shuttle launch of Atlantis from the
Press Site at the Kennedy Space Center. We were accredited newsies,
covering the event for Sky & Telescope online, and I also wrote a
story for Yahoo News. Of course, being fulldome producers, we took
advantage of that proximity to take immersive imagery, all in the spirit
of capturing the moment for domed posterity. ...View more
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Special Venue Media: Musings on the Fulldome Market
"So, what's the fulldome market like these days?" That's a question we hear at Loch Ness Productions pretty often--and
it's a serious topic of conversation any time two or more fulldome
theater folk (or those who want to be in fulldome) get together. In the
past year I've had conversations with several media producers at
various meetings who expressed some interest in "getting into the
fulldome market."...View more
Saturday, January 03, 2009
The Fine Art of Science Exhibit Writing
Remember the last time you went to a science museum and actually read
the exhibits? Perhaps not many think about who writes those words on
the panels about biology and botany and astronomy and geology. That’s
entirely appropriate because what’s really important is the message.
The goal of a good exhibit writer is to convey it in language that
engages interest and excites inquiry among the very diverse audiences
that visit museums and science centers....View more
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Producing for Fulldome: One Company’s Story
Content for fulldome is still largely rooted in the planetarium’s
traditional role of informing people about astronomy and space in an
imaginative and entertaining manner....View more
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