On April 15th 2004, ......

A day in the life of prominent Spanish plant biologist Montserrat Pages. Her views on balancing family and science, science communication in the media, and her research into making a drought resistant transgenic plant are captured here by university students from Barcelona.

The Observatori de la Comunicacio Cientifica (Science Communication Observatory) at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona were the first organisation to volunteer to participate in the World-Wide Day in Science in its inaugural year of 2004.

The Science Communication Observatory runs the oldest and largest science communication degree program in the Spanish-speaking world. They were also host to the international Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) conference in 2004, which coincided with the official launch of the WWDS website.

Observatory staff, Gemma Revuelta and Silvia Coll, arranged for their masters degree students to capture the day in science as a major part of the first course in their program of study. Student teams created three videos. The two longer videos (20 minutes plus) proved to be too large to mount on the web. However, one team made a sharp, three-minute videotape. That has been ‘compressed’ to 1.5 Mb. At this size, the movie should download quickly on broadband internet connections, and it will take only ten minutes to download on more traditional modem connections.

Click here to see the Quicktime-6 version - for Mac users.

Click here to see the Windows Media Player version - for PC users.

First, check to make sure that your computer can play this video. Is your software more than two years old? There might be a problem. Specifically, if your computer has not had its Quicktime or Windows Media Player software updated in the last 2 years, then it probably will not be able to play the movie. Sorry about that.

Credits:

Miguel Angela Alba
Anna Borell
Laura Calpe
Miriam Mollna
Arianne Perez
Nuria Zapater

Special thanks to:

Tania Da Costa
Natalla Perez
Montserrat Pages