Special Projects
Projects featured on this page were produced by members of the Hitchcock Project team. Some projects were created in collaboration with clients from the local science community; others were produced as final projects by students in the Reynolds School of Journalism’s Masters degree program in Media Innovation. If you’d like to work with us on a science communication project, please contact Hitchcock Project director Jennifer Kent at jenniferkent@unr.edu.
Water Markets of the Walker River Basin
Fall 2025
In the Walker River Basin of Nevada and California, climate change is causing new challenges in water availability. Farmers, ranchers and water managers are turning to water markets as a tool to adapt. Learn more in a film produced by the Hitchcock Project and University of Nevada, Reno Extension.
Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network (TEON) StoryMap
Summer 2025
A StoryMap developed by University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism students Ali Dickson and Beatrice Bashibyukyan provides an overview of TEON and its work to protect and preserve water clarity in Lake Tahoe.
Broadening Horizons: UNR Nursing Students in Cambodia
Spring 2025
Students from the Orvis School of Nursing at UNR visited Southern Cambodia to take part in an international knowledge and culture exchange at Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital. Journalism student Kat Fulwider ’25 documented this inaugural exchange program in a StoryMap and article for NevadaToday.
Travel Reporting: Costa Rica 2025
Spring 2025
During spring break, 15 students from the Reynolds School visited La Selva Biological Station as part of the Hitchcock Project’s new Travel Reporting course, in partnership with Spanish language media project Noticiero Móvil. Students produced multimedia stories documenting new research and existing environmental challenges in a diverse rainforest environment.
The Rock Whisperers
Spring 2025
Two short films by Kat Fulwider follow along in the field and laboratory with volcanologist Phillip Ruprecht, Ph.D., as he and a team from the University of Nevada, Reno explore the geology of Lassen Volcanic National Park.
University of Nevada, Reno in Panama
Spring 2024
A team of scientists from UNR traveled to Panama to study chytridiomycosis, a disease that has been devastating for Panamanian amphibian populations. Read more in an ArcGIS StoryMap produced by the Hitchcock Project and UNR’s College of Science.
Portraits of Climate Change
Fall 2023
A multimedia series on climate injustice and vulnerability in the Americas. A graduate project by Master’s student Vanesa de la Cruz Pavas, class of 2023.
Understanding Lake Tahoe Water Clarity
Spring 2023
What do we know about current water clarity trends in Lake Tahoe, and what might the future hold? An ArcGIS storymap produced by the Hitchcock Project in partnership with the Tahoe Science Advisory Council.
