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Environmental Public Health

The Teachers' Domain Environmental Public Health Special Collection on PBS LearningMedia is contributed by the WGBH Educational Foundation. It is a collaborative production of WGBH Educational Productions, WGBH Interactive, and WGBH Media Library. Major funding for this project is provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

This project was supported by Award Number RC1ES018084 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences or the National Institutes of Health.

Production Credits

Project Management

Denise Blumenthal

Joe Brandt

Anna Brooks

Karen Cariani

Christine Dietlin

Howard Lurie

Peter Pinch

Ted Sicker

Christian Wise

Resource Production Team

Steven Bedard

Kit Buckley

Julie Ecker

Irena Fayngold

Jessica Gidal

Jason Kahn

Emily Lu

Barbara Moran

Dan Paquin

Christopher Riegle

Lisa Rosenthal

Barbara Seidl

Mitch Smith

Business Management

Sue Chalifoux

Maria Constantinides

Polly Searles

Copy Editor

Jill Farinelli

Advisors

Ann Backus, Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Sally Crissman, TERC

Gilly Puttick, TERC

Margaret Reid, Boston Public Health Commission

Kathleen Mead Vandiver, The Center for Environmental Health Sciences, MIT

Understanding Air Lesson Plan Development Team

Atmospheric Science Advisors

Eben S. Cross, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

Kelly E. Daumit, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

Jesse H. Kroll, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT


LEGO® Lesson Production Team

Amy M. Fitzgerald, Edgerton Center, MIT

Jessica E. Garrett, Edgerton Center, MIT

Amanda N. Gruhl, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, MIT

Kathleen M. Vandiver, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, MIT

Video Closed Captioning

Media Access Group

Resource Credits

ABC News VideoSource

American Forests, photos of Rachel Carson

Emily Butler photograph of grad student Sarah DuRant

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Native Diabetes Wellness Program

CNN ImageSource

Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning

Dangerous Films, Ltd. - dramatic sequences produced for Rx for Survival: "How Safe Are We" and "Deadly Messengers"

Earth Island Institute

Environmental Justice League of RI, Director Ellie Leonardsmith

FEMA/Dave Saville

Fisher Broadcasting

fotolia.com: 5AM Images, Yuri Arcurs, Atmospheric, Blend Images, Danielle Bonardelle, bpmcwill, Natalia D., Raphael Daniaud, Demarco, Tyler Derden, DJ, endostock, Keith Frith, Kelpfish, Artur Gabrysiak, godfer, Laurence Gough, Indigo, Jim Kerwood, Aaron Kohr, Larry Lawhead, Phillippe Leridon, Living Legend, MJPHOTO, Ivan Montero, moodboard, Stephan Morrosch, Nvuk, pressmaster, Alexander Raths, Lisa F. Young

Force Four Entertainment, Inc. "Playing with Poison"

Framingham Historical Society

"In Small Doses" was produced by Dartmouth College Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program under a grant from NIEHS and supported by Award Number P42ES007373 from the NIEHS. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIEHS or the NIH. © 2009 The Trustees of Dartmouth College

iStockphoto.com: Rolf Aasa, Douglas Allen, ANLM, Eniko Balogh, Deborah Benbrook, Glenn Bo, Bob Turitz Photography, David Cannings-Bushell, Дмитрй Скалев, Kimberly Deprey, Jaimie Duplass, fotoVoyager, Ines Gesell, Danish Khan, Susan Law Cain, David Leindecker, magui80, James McQuillan, michellegibson, Ekaterina Monakhova, nolimitpictures, Simon Owler, Palto, Karen Phillips, pidjoe, Sunitha Pilli, ranplett, .shock, Anita Stizzoli, Tjui Tjioe, Maria Toutoudaki, Anantha Vardhan, Scott Vickers, Vikram Raghuvanshi Photography, jianying yin

ITN Source

Michael E. Jackson

Lynn Johnson/National Geographic Stock

Jupiterimages Corporation

The LEGO Group and MIT. All Rights Reserved. Lego, the Lego logo, and the brick and knob configuration are trademarks of the Lego Group, used here with permission.

Jenny Labalme

Linda Harrar Productions

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

Magnum Photos/Erich Hartmann

Maryland Sea Grant, Michael Fincham

Mosaic Films "Big River" distributed by Bullfrog Films

National Archives and Records Administration

National Library of Medicine

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Need to Know/WNET

Oregon State University (mercury concentration data)

Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization

Punchstock.com - Blend Images, Comstock, Creatas, Design Pics, Digital Vision, Purestock, and Radius Images

Red Rock Pictures "Split Estate"

Sacred Land Film Project "Poison in the Rockies" distributed by Bullfrog Films

Luis Daniel Sepulveda

Shutterstock.com - andesign101 © 2012, Thor Jorgen Udvang © 2010, shadow216 © 2010

Stanford Lewis, Strategic Video Productions

stockfootageforfree.com

Thought Equity Motion for CBS News footage

Toxic Comedy Pictures "Blue Vinyl" distributed by Bullfrog Films

Twin Cities Public Television's DragonflyTV

United Church of Christ

U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Second Class Lauren Jorgensen

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (mercury concentration data)

U.S. EPA AIRNow

U.S. EPA/Eric Vance

U.S. Food And Drug Administration photographs by Keith Weller, Peggy Greb, and Stephan Ausmus

Vulcan Productions

WFAA-TV

Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo

WPA Film Library


Special thanks to AFTRA and AF of M for granting permission to use segments produced with participation of their members.