Kira in the news

CAL ACADEMY PRESS ARTICLES

10/29/2015 The Cuddly Killer Among Us

06/05/2014 Seeds of Time

01/15/2014 Mapping Brain Neurons

AWARD-WINNING ENGINEERING

Personal Planetarium, and Build a Better Crab Trap

KQED SCIENCE

2013 200 Geeks, 24 Hours: Science Hack Day in San Francisco

BOING BOING

2013 Science Hack Day San Francisco

MISC. SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

ABC7

06/23/2011 Academy Researchers Make Underwater Discoveries

This article is about the Philippines expeditions in 2011 and 2014. Kira acted as the media and data wrangler for all video assets coming back from both expeditions. Kira designed a system to organize, ingest, label and share out the resulting media.

EXAMINER

Orcas Kill, but Speed Lives at the Academy of Sciences

PLANETARIUM SCIENCE VISUALIZATION ARTICLES

Kira is both an artist and producer for planetarium show content. She has extensive experience shooting video and photos for fulldome productions. Kira is also knowledgable about the technical challenges of producing fully immersive content. She has experience with CGI, video, and audio pipelines for fulldome productions.

New York Times

Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science. By JOHN MARKOFF Published: April 25, 2011

This article features the Visualization Studio at the California Academy of Sciences. Kira is pictured with her co-workers in the “wedge” a 3D lab that creates compelling scientifically accurate visualizations for the Academy.

Featuring the Cal Academy's Visual Effects Supervisor, Mike Schmitt.