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Deep Wrecks Media
Project Wins Award!
Dennis Aig,
Ph.D., Director of the PAST Documentation Unit and Professor of
Media and Theatre Arts, Montana State
University (MSU), has been awarded 2006 Charles and Nora L. Wiley
Award for his work on the
Deep Gulf Wrecks
Project. Sponsored by the MSU Foundation, the prize is given in
honor of the Wileys who were pioneer ranchers in Eastern Montana. Aig
and three MSU students (Keene
Haywood,
Lansing
Dreamer (above) and
Korey
Kaczmarek) operated the Media Lab during the expedition and were
responsible for videotaping the operations of the ship and scientific
work, logging and duplicating footage from an ROV, cutting short pieces
as video updates that were sent to the PAST website while the ship was
at sea, and generally linking the biologists and archaeologists onboard
to each other and the rest of the world. The work of Aig and his team
has been credited with expanding the use of media in underwater
explorations and improving relationships among scientists and
filmmakers.
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