NASA Filmmaker Debuts 'Plight Of The Puffins'

Posted on: Friday, 18 July 2008, 11:16 CDT What do puffins – colorful-billed birds looking like miniature penguins – have to do with the work we do at NASA? That would be a good question to ask Maria Frostic, an earth science film producer at Goddard. Better yet, catch her documentary, “Plight of the Puffins,” on PBS next week to get the scoop. On a Fulbright scholarship, Maria took leave from Goddard for July and August 2007 and traveled to the Westman Islands of Iceland to make a documentary on the shrinking population of puffins. Originally, she had planned to produce a film on medieval Icelandic sagas, but her plans changed after hearing the story of the Islands’ native bird. Maria explained, “Upon my arrival in Iceland, I was introduced to a puffin biologist who had just launched a study to understand why Iceland's... [read full story]