RAPID: The Himalaya Connection Video, Expanded

2015年4月25日，尼泊尔首都加德满都西北约80公里处发生了破坏性的里氏7.8级地震。在这次地震发生的地方，印度板块与欧亚板块汇合，推动了喜马拉雅山脉的隆起。这项RAPID奖将使计划中的关于尼泊尔、孟加拉国、印度和蒙古地球科学研究的电视纪录片《喜马拉雅联系》（the Himalaya Connection）得以扩大和更新，从半小时节目增加到一小时节目，以便将尼泊尔地震和为使该地区更安全地应对自然灾害所吸取的经验教训纳入其中。地震吗?S的发生提供了一个难得的教育机会，增加关于地球过程的新科学信息的影响，而灾难在全球公众意识中仍然新鲜。利用过去几年来在美国国家科学基金会资助的几个项目下拍摄的科学家实地研究和相关景观、文化场景和采访的镜头，制片人将以地震及其后果所带来的开放为基础，将从这次事件中吸取的教训融入到对工作力量及其对该地区的更广泛影响的更深层次的理解中，以及这些知识背后的科学研究。因为《喜玛拉雅连线》已经进入后期制作阶段，所以影片可以相当快地修改和完成，并迅速发行，以利用最近在全球媒体上广泛传播的有关尼泊尔的信息。这部纪录片?美国的主要观众是北美收看PBS的电视观众；这部电影还将在国际上播出。本片的制片人是地球影像基金会的道格·普罗斯和黛安·拉玛基亚，他们都是地球科学电视纪录片的获奖制作人。RAPID项目下的活动将涉及纪录片的后期制作、母带和发行。

On April 25, 2015, a devastating M=7.8 earthquake occurred approximately 80 km to the northwest of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. At the location of this earthquake the India plate is converging with Eurasia driving the uplift of the Himalayan mountain range. This RAPID award will enable the expansion and updating of a planned television documentary (The Himalaya Connection) about earth science research in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Mongolia from a half-hour to a one-hour show, in order to incorporate the Nepal earthquake and the lessons learned for making the region safer from natural hazards.The earthquake?s occurrence provides a rare educational opportunity to increase the impact of new scientific information about earth processes while the disaster remains fresh in the global public consciousness. Using footage of scientists doing field research and related landscape, cultural scenes, and interviews filmed over the past several years under several NSF-funded projects, the producers will build on the opening created by the earthquake and its aftermath to incorporate lessons learned from this event into a deeper understanding of the forces at work and their wider impact on the region, and the scientific research behind this knowledge. Because The Himalaya Connection was already in post production, the film can be revised and completed fairly quickly and distributed soon enough to take advantage of the recent information about Nepal that has been so widespread in the global media. The documentary?s primary audience is television viewers watching PBS in North America; the film will also be distributed for international broadcast. The filmmakers are Doug Prose and Diane LaMacchia of Earth Images Foundation, award-winning producers of earth science television documentaries. Activities under this RAPID project will involve post-production, mastering, and distribution of the documentary.