N.Y. museum features Dartmouth observatory
By Xia Lee | October 20, 1999Information about mapping floodplains from the Dartmouth Flood Observatory is currently being featured in a new display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The exhibition will be housed in the museum's Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth as part of the "Earthworks" section, which will also feature volcanoes, earthquakes, storms, and other earth-shaping natural events. The Flood Observatory is partly funded by a grant from NASA, according to Geography Professor Robert Brakenridge, who, along with research assistant Elaine Anderson '83, is in charge of the observatory. The museum, which also has a relationship with NASA, chose to feature Dartmouth after seeing an article about the observatory on NASA's website, said Lily Leopold Saint, senior visual researcher at the museum. The display will feature satellite maps of floods.