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Short Features
These videos of <10 minutes long were filmed and edited by the storyteller, Marlowe Starling.
scienceline | May 30, 2022
I filmed, reported, edited and wrote a script for this five-minute video profiling NYC students who participated in a beach grass planting event at Coney Island Creek Park. The initiative was part of a larger effort to establish "living shorelines" to protect NYC's coast from storm surge and flooding, such as what Superstorm Sandy wrought in 2012. Read more here.
Mongabay | July 17, 2021
I filmed, reported, edited and wrote a script for this four-minute video highlighting a project in Miami, Florida, aiming to restore historic freshwater flow to Biscayne Bay. It pairs with a story I wrote about how a massive fish kill in Biscayne Bay spurred communities across Miami to take immediate action to restore the ecosystem back to health, with a special focus on how nature-based solutions could hold promise.
Mongabay | July 14, 2021
This seven-minute video was filmed, reported, edited and scripted (for text slides) by me to accompany a story I wrote about how a massive fish kill in Biscayne Bay spurred communities across Miami to take immediate action to restore the ecosystem back to health, with a special focus on how nature-based solutions could hold promise. This video highlights an interdisciplinary team at Florida International University using autonomous underwater and surface water vessels to record data and create predictive models for anticipating tipping points like the August 2020 fish kill event.
Mongabay | April 20, 2021
This six-minute video was filmed, edited, scripted and captioned by me to accompany a story I wrote about the rare Florida reef gecko threatened by climate change. I tagged along with University of Miami researchers at a natural area in Miami, Florida, to film the process of finding and collecting the geckos for research. I also used raw data, courtesy of the researchers, to create Google Maps graphics depicting the change in gecko sightings over time and other b-roll to supplement the footage.
wuft news | december 2, 2020
This under five-minute video was filmed and edited by me to accompany a story I wrote about the climate change-induced northward expansion of the common snook, a historically South Florida sportfish. I joined Captain Denny Voyles and his clients on an airboat fishing tour in Cedar Key, Florida, to tell the story of how the snook's arrival might impact recreational fishermen in the face of a changing coastal ecosystem.
Shorts for Mongabay
Edited for social media platforms like Facebook, these brief <2-minute videos summarize key information, facts and findings adapted from full-length articles that appear on mongabay.com. Edits and on-screen scripts by Marlowe Starling.
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Unpublished
Videos listed here were produced for classwork and include non-copyright music. These are additional examples of my shooting, editing and producing work.