{"id":24960,"date":"2007-01-18T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:21:39","slug":"river-reborn-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/river-reborn-premieres\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;River Reborn&#8217; premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Stefan Sommer<\/strong>\u00a0welcomed the crowd at the world premiere of\u00a0<em>A River Reborn: The Restoration of Fossil Creek<\/em>at the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix on Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This film is a great showcase of how our students and scientists work hand-in-hand to make a positive difference in the environment,&#8221; said NAU President\u00a0<strong>John Haeger<\/strong>, who also spoke at the premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Sommer, director of education at NAU&#8217;s Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, also is executive producer of the documentary that examines the ecological effects of a 100-year-old dam and hydroelectric facility on Fossil Creek, and chronicles the impact NAU research had on the 15-year process that led to the hydroelectric decommissioning<\/p>\n<p>The film aired on KAET (Channel 8) on Jan. 17 and will be shown again at midnight Jan. 20, at 5 p.m. Jan. 21 and at midnight and 3:30 a.m. Jan 22. In March it will be distributed nationally throughout the National Public Broadcasting System and the National Educational Telecommunications Association.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also is available on DVD. For information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverreborn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.RiverReborn.org<\/a>\u00a0or contact Sommer at (928) 523-4463.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/river-reborn-premieres\/\">NAU&#8217;s\u00a0Stefan Sommer\u00a0welcomed the crowd at the world premiere of\u00a0A River Reborn: The Restoration of Fossil Creekat the Orpheum Theatre in Phoenix on Jan. 14. &#8220;This film is a great showcase of how our students and scientists work hand-in-hand to make a positive difference in the environment,&#8221; said NAU President\u00a0John Haeger, who also spoke at the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}