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I didn't plan on making a film about

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puffins when i arrived in iceland but

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when i got there i met a puffin

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biologist who told me that this

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particular region in Iceland which is

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the Westman Islands happens to be the

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largest breeding colony of puffins in

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the world they're everywhere my name is

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Mariah frost ich I'm an earth science

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film producer at NASA Goddard Space

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Flight Center I make web shorts short

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web videos on various climate change

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topics so that's often involving

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satellite data I don't often get to go

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into the field for these kinds of

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projects people in the Westman Islands

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care a lot about puffins the first

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settlers who arrived in this region

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really depended on puffins for survival

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and in the last three years the puffins

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food supply which has been abundant

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throughout history has started to become

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scarce in the years since i went to

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iceland they have drawn a connection

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between the disappearance of the puffins

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phytoplankton is the basis of the marine

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food chain and throughout the world

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we're seeing decreasing phytoplankton

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and that's connected to sea surface

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temperatures increasing slightly in the

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last decade and the way NASA fits into

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that whole picture is we have a whole

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suite of Earth observing satellites one

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of which seawifs is measuring global

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levels of phytoplankton so researchers

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around the world are able to use data

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coming in from seawifs to study things

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like the puffins food supply in iceland

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so it's a pretty unique connection that

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this data set is available it's not just

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for scientists it can be for fishermen

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or other folks that might be interested

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in what's happening with the basis of

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the whole reason why I chose to go into

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science filmmaking is because I'm

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interested in communicating science

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stories and I work at NASA Goddard

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because this is where some of the most