28 NEBRASKAland • JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015
and understanding of the Platte River and its immense
90,000 square mile basin moving forward? Can we leverage
the tremendous power of photography and storytelling to
chronicle a river and build community around a watershed?
To that end, a growing PBT team has created a web-based
platform to deliver in-depth multimedia journalism exploring
PBT web producer Steven Speicher describes the project's new web-based multimedia storytelling platform to a group of
participants at the Water for Food 2014 Global Conference in Seattle, Washington.
The project's time-lapse cameras are Nikon DSLRs tethered to custom designed technologies in waterproof housings. The first
generation (left) images were downloaded by hand and solar power was stored in batteries. Several generations later (right),
capacitors are used to store power rather than batteries, and about half the camera systems are delivering images daily to servers
by cellular modem.
