The Washington Post
Anacostia Community Museum reopens Monday, readies for 45th anniversary with new exhibition by Erin Williams
Published: 01:39 PM ET, 07/27/2012
“Another example of the photography that came out of partnering with Linda Davidson at the Washington Post.” – Westergard
Radio New Zealand National
Crowd Counting from This Way UP with Simon Morton
Aired: October 8th, 2011
“Accurately estimating the number of people in a crowd is a tricky but important task for all sorts of reasons; for safety, for policing, even for the media who want to report the numbers right. Curt Westergard of Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc, counts crowds for a living.” – Morton
http://www.radionz.co.nz/
Popular Mechanics
The Curious Science of Counting a Crowd By Rob Goodier
Published: September 12, 2011 5:00 PM
http://www.popularmechanics.
The Washington Post
Post needs to get over fear of crowd estimates, By Andrew Alexander
Published: Friday, November 5, 2010; 7:44 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Beck and the science of crowd counts by Lawrence Krauss
Published: September 05, 2010
“Counting crowds has a long tradition of controversy and inherent inaccuracy. Is it even possible to make reliable empirical estimates? It is if you do it the way doctors determine whether men are infertile.” – Krauss
http://articles.latimes.com/
Columbia Journalism Review
The Glenn Beck Numbers Game: The number matters, but which number? by Joel Meares
Published: 04:02 PM – August 30, 2010
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_
National Public Radio
Science Friday with Ira Flatow
Published: November 05, 2010 1:00 PM
http://www.npr.org/templates/
New York Times
Making It Easier to Anticipate the View by C. J. HUGHES
Published: November 18, 2007
“The building’s 199 units found buyers in 18 months and are now about 10 percent closed…The brisk sell-out was helped by careful pricing, which Digital Design’s photos aided…They were a marvelous tool to guide the developer.” – Richard Wallgren, Sales Director, 15 Central Park West | Zeckendorf Development
AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President of Shade Tree Meteorology, LLC
DDIS carefully plans and takes responsibility for choosing safe attractive weather for our analysis and aerial photo work. This involves occasionally contracting profesional NWS appvd meteroloists. For the Greater NY Region, we engage Richard Westergard.
Dick Westergard, an AMS Member, and an AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist, is president of Shade Tree Meteorology, LLC in Niskayuna, New York, which he founded in 2004. Mr. Westergard has a BA degree from Marshall University and has worked in the field of meteorology since 1966. He served in the public sector from 1966 to 2004. The last 21 years of his public service career was in various field office leadership positions, including Official In Charge of the Huntington, West Virginia NWS office, Meteorologist in Charge of the Duluth, Minnesota NWS office and Warning Coordination Meteorologist in the Albany, NY NWS office. He is currently serving as president of the National Council of Industrial Meteorologists, and has done nationwide research with the SUNY Albany Communication Department on how people acquire, assimilate and utilize weather information. Mr. Westergard is a member of the National Weather Association, and the National Council of Industrial Meteorologists.
(Bio and Photo from American Meteorological Society – http://www.ametsoc.org/boardpges/cwce/docs/profiles/WestergardRichardJ/profile.html)
