Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead
Web site credits

Web Site Credits

Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Kristine Allington, Project Coordinator
Darcy Forlenza, Editorial Assistant
Dan Hart, Developer
Jon Hayward, Designer
Tyler Howe, Senior Designer
Pamela King, Intern
Alan Kwan, Developer
David Levin, Associate Editor
Susan K. Lewis, Senior Editor
Ben Livermore, Developer
Melissa Salpietra, Managing Editor
Cassandra Sell, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Rachel VanCott, Editorial Assistant

Image Credits
Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead homepage
Images: (Mt. St. Helens) © Martin Stoni/Interspot Films

Filming in a Disaster Area
Images: (1980 eruption) © Joel E. Harvey; (Charlie Crisafulli with pocket gopher) © Josef Neuper/Interspot film; (view over Spirit Lake) © Daniel Hissen/Interspot Film; (a purple lupine) © Gary Braasch; (Heins Leger and Erich Pröll) © Jutta Wirth/Interspot Films; (Daniel Hissen and Josef Neuper) © Daniel Hissen/Interspot Film

Life Returns to the Blast Zone
Images: (Charlie Crisafulli, remnants of forest, log mat) © Daniel Hissen/Interspot Films; (before the eruption) © Harry Glicken/USGS; (Mt. St. Helens eruption) © Joel E. Harvey; (eruption plume 1) © Austin Post/USGS ; (eruption plume 2) © Donald A. Swanson/USGS; (ash from the eruption) © David Wieprecht/USGS; (flattened forest, Harry's Ridge, spirit lake after eruption) © Lyn Topinka/USGS; (Mt St Helens from NW) © Tom Casadevall/USGS; (Mt. St. Helens pumice plain 1, Mt. St. Helens pumice plain 2, Roosevelt elk 1, Roosevelt elk 3, Crisafulli with mouse, lupine at gopher burrow, Crisafulli in the field, young northwestern salamander 1, young northwestern salamander 2, young northwestern salamander 3) © WGBH Educational Foundation; (lifeless wasteland) © Peter Lipman/USGS; (lone lupine plant) © Gary Braasch; (Roosevelt elk 2, Deer mouse, gopher burrowing 1, gopher burrowing 2, gopher burrowing 3, gopher winter tunnels, toad in gopher burrow, pacific treefrog 1, pacific treefrog 2, adult northwestern salamander) © Charlie Crisafulli; (northern pocket gopher) © Ty Smedes Nature Photography; (Crisafulli with gopher) © Josef Neuper/Interspot Film; (spirit lake before eruption) © Jim Nieland, U.S. Forest Service, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument; (30 years after eruption, Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake, sunset over Mt. St. Helens) © Martin Stoni/Interspot Film; (flowering meadow, logs adrift on Spirit Lake) © Jutta Wirth/Interspot Film

TV Program Description
Image: (view over Spirit Lake) © Daniel Hissen/Interspot Film

Program credits

TV Program Credits

Executive Producer
Matthew Barrett

Written, Produced, and Directed by
Nick Davidson

Associate Producer
Sascha Olofson

Edited by
Martin Sage

Additional Edited by
Rob Alexander

Narrator
Lance Lewman

Photography
Mark Molesworth
Josef Neuper

Additional Photography
Michael Bendixen

Underwater Photography
Erich Pröll

Cineflex Operator
Thomas Miller

Camera Assistants
Martin Stoni
Jutta Wirth

Sound Recordist
Donna Molesworth

Music
Mark Adair

Animation
Prime Focus

Location Manager
Sabine Sporer

Unit Manager
Eleonora Frey

Production Managers
Judy Evans
Dinah Czezik-Müller

Archivist
Cristina Miro

Online Editor
David Grewal

Colorists
Peter Lynch
David Hughes

Audio Mix
Greg Gettens

Scientific Advisors
Charlie M. Crisafulli
Jon J. Major

Archival Material
BBC Motion Gallery
U.S. Geological Survey
IMAX
Graphic Films Corporation
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Photo Library
Gary Braasch
Joel Harvey
John Marshall

Special Thanks
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
Tom Mulder
US Forest Service
Peter Frenzen
U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
Natural History Museum Vienna

For Orf Universum

Mount St. Helens
Life From Zero

Written and Directed by
Jörg Daniel Hissen
Heinz Leger

Produced by
Heinrich Mayer

Music Composed by
Roman Kariolou

Narration Script
Klaus Feichtenberger

Editor
Sebastian Würger

Digital Visual Effects
Industrial Motion Art

Graphic Design
Daniel Budka
Katharina Geiger

Sound Design and Mix
Michael Plöderl
Bernd Dormayer
Thomas Kathriner

Co-Producer
Martin Pieper

Executive Producers
Walter Köhler
Rudolf Klingohr

 

NOVA Series Graphics
yU + co.

NOVA Theme Music
Walter Werzowa
John Luker
Musikvergnuegen, Inc.

Additional NOVA Theme Music
Ray Loring
Rob Morsberger

Post Production Online Editor
Spencer Gentry

Closed Captioning
The Caption Center

Publicity
Carole McFall
Eileen Campion
Victoria Louie
Karen Laverty

Marketing
Steve Sears

Researcher
Kate Becker

Production Coordinator
Linda Callahan

Paralegal
Sarah Erlandson

Talent Relations
Scott Kardel, Esq.
Janice Flood

Legal Counsel
Susan Rosen

Production Assistant
Ryan Murdock

Post Production Assistant
Darcy Forlenza

Associate Producer, Post Production
Patrick Carey

Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole

Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto

Post Production Manager
Nathan Gunner

Compliance Manager
Linzy Emery

Development Producer
Pamela Rosenstein

Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart

Business Manager
Joseph P. Tracy

Senior Producer and Project Director
Lisa Mirowitz

Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane

Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham

Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace

Executive Producer
Howard Swartz

Managing Director
Alan Ritsko

Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell

 

A NOVA/ORF co-production by Interspot for WGBH Boston in association with ZDF/ARTE, BMUKK, Fremantle Media, supported by Fernsehfonds Austria.

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