Ken Ackerman is a Motion Graphics Designer and Animator at the California Academy of Sciences, where he has animated everything from earthquakes to sea otters for the museum’s award-winning planetarium shows. Ackerman is also a regular contributor to bioGraphic. Some of his past data visualizations can be found in An Audacious Plan in the Twilight and By Foot Into Peru’s Lost World.
Armed with a suite of high-tech tools, scientists are measuring the flow of gases into and out of the Amazon rainforest to understand how this iconic ecosystem responds to seasonal and climatic shifts.
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