“Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth’s Climate Engine” Premieres

Description

Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth’s Climate Engine, a new show, will premier on Saturday, February 14, at 2 p.m. in the Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport, NY. Regular showings will be at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.

Courtesy of Spitz Creative Media Volcano erupts on Venus

The award-winning Dynamic Earth(for families and children age 8 and older) explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape the planet’s climate: the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere.

Audiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales, and fly into roiling volcanoes.

Hurricane Katrina, west of Florida

Dynamic Earth is the result of a two-year collaboration among Spitz Creative Media, the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, and Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc. The show was produced in association with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and NASA Earth Science, and narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson.

Dynamic Earth explores concepts and terms essential to understanding the climate – the Earth-Sun relationship; life, plate tectonics and the carbon cycle; the interconnection of Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and biosphere; comparison with Venus; and perspective on climate change. Running time: 24 minutes.

Winter Hours - Museum and Mansion

Through April 12: Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays: 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. (Last mansion tour begins at 4:00.) The Museum and Mansion are closed Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. (Planetarium is open Friday nights.)

Winter Hours – Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium

Through April 12: Daytime shows Tuesday at 2:00 and on Saturday and Sunday at12:00,1:00,2:00,3:00 and 4:00. Evening shows Friday and Saturday at 8:00 and 9:00. The Planetarium is closed Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Thursday.

Observatory

Year-round viewing of the night sky (weather permitting), Friday only, 9:00-10:00 (free with show ticket; $3.00 without show ticket)

Planetarium Show Schedule – Winter 2015

Tuesday
2:00 – Dynamic Earth

Friday Night
8:00 – Long Island Skies
9:00 – Musical Space Journey

Saturday and Sunday
12:00 – One World, One Sky
1:00 – Earth, Moon, and Sun
2:00 – Dynamic Earth
3:00 – Black Holes
4:00 – Stars: Powerhouses of the Universe

Saturday Night
8:00 – Black Holes
9:00 – Classic Rock ‘n’ Light

Museum Admission

General museum admission is $7 for adults, $6 for students with ID and seniors (62 and older), and $3 for children 12 and under. General admission includes estate-grounds access to the Marine Museum, Memorial Wing natural-history and ethnographic-artifact galleries, Nursery Wing, Habitat Room, Egyptian mummy and Stoll Wing animal-habitat dioramas. For a mansion tour, add $5 per ticket. (A video tour of the mansion is available on request.)

Organizers

Event categories: Cinema and History.Event tags: Film, Historical Landmark, History, Museum, Science, and Story Telling/Reading.