Fundraiser in New York City: AWIS Meets Hollywood!

摘要

On the evening of June 10, AWIS members and others from NY, CT, NJ, and PA gathered at the Loews IMAX Theater on 68th Street and Broadway to view the Walt Disney Pictures' Aliens of the Deep. This film, about deep-sea hydrothermal vents, was directed by James Cameron (of "Titanic" fame) and presented by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. Aliens of the Deep features scientists at work (several of whom happen to be women) observing the remarkable physical and biological features and processes that are found at hydrothermal vents. These are the sites where very hot, sulfur-rich water comes out of the earth (sometimes in "black smokers") and supports a community of marine organisms found nowhere else on earth that are adapted to survive in these extreme conditions. Observations of the vents and their unique life forms are made from submersibles that travel downward from the sea surface for hours to reach the deep locations (perhaps a mile down) of the vents.