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7.8级地震。 在这次地震的位置，印度板块正在与欧亚大陆汇合，推动喜马拉雅山脉的隆起。 这个RAPID奖项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（喜马拉雅连接）从半小时增加到一小时，以便将尼泊尔地震和使该地区更安全免受自然灾害的经验教训纳入其中。地震？这场灾难的发生提供了一个难得的教育机会，在全球公众对这场灾难记忆犹新的同时，增加有关地球过程的新科学信息的影响。利用科学家在过去几年中在几个NSF资助的项目下进行实地研究和相关景观，文化场景和采访的镜头，制片人将在地震及其后果所创造的开放基础上，将从这次事件中吸取的经验教训融入到对工作中的力量及其对该地区的更广泛影响的更深入理解中，以及这些知识背后的科学研究中。由于《喜马拉雅连线》已经在后期制作中，这部电影可以很快地修改和完成，并很快发行，以利用最近在全球媒体上广泛传播的关于尼泊尔的信息。纪录片？主要观众是在北美观看PBS的电视观众;这部电影也将在国际上播出。电影制片人是地球图像基金会的道格·普罗斯和黛安·拉马基亚，他们是获奖的地球科学电视纪录片制片人。在这一快速项目下开展的活动将包括纪录片的后期制作、母版制作和发行。

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.