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October 3, 2006: Credits

Web Site Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Gayle Añonuevo, Editorial Assistant
Rima Chaddha, Assistant Editor
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Associate Editor
David Levin, Editorial Assistant
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Anna Malsberger, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer

Special Thanks

David Kaiser, MIT
H. Jay Melosh, The University of Arizona

Photo and Image Credits

Asteroid

Asteroid hub page
Image: (asteroid hitting Earth) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

The Asteroid That Hit L.A.
Images: (California coast) Courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC; (Barringer Meteor Crater) Courtesy NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; (K-T asteroid impact, coastal asteroid impact) Courtesy NASA/Don Davis

Image composite of asteroid over Rose Bowl: (asteroid) Courtesy NASA; (Rose Bowl) Courtesy Tournament of Roses® Archive

Island of Stability

Island of Stability hub page
Image: (Periodic Table) © iStockphoto/Vlad Titarenko

An Elemental Quiz
Images: (Periodic Table) Courtesy of its creator, who wishes to remain anonymous; (atom) Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy; (sun) Courtesy USGS; (Marie Curie) Public domain; (smoke detector) Courtesy Federal Aviation Administration; (hydrogen bomb explosion) Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration; (stopwatch) © SXC.hu/Dain Hubley

Image composite: (lead weights) © iStockphoto.com/Douglas Freer; (sea shell) © SXC.hu/Klaus Post; (tin can) © SXC.hu/abert a; (oxygen tank) Courtesy Ozone Services; (nickel) © SXC.hu/Alicia Solario

Obesity

Obesity hub page
Image: (scale) © iStockphoto/Mena Trott

Keeping the Weight Off
Images: (obese person) © iStockphoto.com/Ed Hidden Photography; (glucose test, gastric-bypass surgery) © Karen Kasmauski/CORBIS; (breakfast) © iStockphoto.com/Alan Creech; (leptin animation) ©2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute; (Michael Rosenbaum) Courtesy C.E. Manley/Center for Biomedical Communications/Columbia University

Profile: karl Iagnemma

Karl Iagnemma hub page
Image: (Karl Iagnemma) © Tracy Powell

On the Nature of Being Karl Iagnemma
Images: (Karl Iagnemma) © Tracy Powell; (Iagnemma as a boy, drafting, and with robot) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation; (micro-robot) Courtesy Shane Farritor/University of Nebraska-Lincoln; (Iagnemma with daughter, Iagnemma family) Courtesy Karl Iagnemma

Ask the Expert

Images: (all) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

Biographies

Images: (all) © NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation

Production Credits

Asteroid

Edited by
Dick Bartlett

Written, Produced and Directed by
Julia Cort


Island of Stability

Produced and Edited by
Vincent Liota


Obesity

Edited by
Stephen Mack

Produced and Directed by
Dean Irwin


Karl Iagnemma Profile

Edited by
Robe Imbriano

Produced by
Robe Imbriano & Carla Denly


NOVA scienceNOW

Executive Producer
Samuel Fine

Executive Editor
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Senior Series Producer
Vincent Liota

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Development Producer
Vinita Mehta

Program Editor
David Chmura

Associate Producers
Win Rosenfeld
Anthony Manupelli
Mica McCarthy
Shimona Shahi
Mary Robertson
Shannon Guirl
Courtney Kline

Unit Manager
Candace White

Production Secretary
Fran Laks

Animator
Brian Edgerton

Music
Rob Morsberger

Song: "The Elements" Music and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer

NOVA scienceNOW Series Animation
Edgeworx

Camera
Vincent Liota
Peter Bonilla
Mike Coles
Brian Dowley
Anthony Forma

Sound Recordists
Adriano Bravo
John Cameron
Michael Karas
John O'Connor
Keith Rodgerson
Allen Stith

Audio Mix
John Jenkins

Colorist
Mark Steele

Animation
Vincent Liota
Sputnik

Animation
Three-dimensional animations courtesy of LONI and the Center for Computational Biology in collaboration with the National Institutes of Mental Health. Principal Investigator: Arthur W. Toga, Animators: Ken Nakada, Tomokatsu Shoji, Hideo Kumagai, Amanda Hammond, Kim Hager, Andrew Lee & John Bacheller

Special Thanks
Software Bisque

Archival Material
Allen Friensehner/LLNL
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna
Maas Digital LLC
NASA /Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA/JPL/Cornell
Aerial shot of JPL courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Jennifer Hulshizer/Star Ledger/Corbis

Archival Playboy Magazine material provided by Playboy. Used with Permission. All rights reserved.


NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring

Post Production Online Editors
Spencer Gentry
Mark Steele

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

NOVA Administrator
Dara Bourne

Publicity
Eileen Campion
Olivia Wong

Researcher
Gaia Remerowski

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Unit Managers
Carla Raimer
Karen Lally

Paralegal
Raphael Nemes

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen Shishko

Post Production Assistant
Josh Thurston

Assistant Editor
Alex Kreuter

Associate Producer, Post Production
Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner

Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell



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