National Geographic's "Wild Chronicles" is airing Christine Eckstrom's video of albatrosses on PBS stations beginning Saturday, Dec. 15. Check your local listings. The story features photographer Frans Lanting and writer Carl Safina with TOPP researcher Scott Shaffer on Midway Atoll. Lanting and Safina put together the feature story "Wings of the Albatross"  in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.

And if you're in Washington, D.C., be sure to check the new outdoor exhibition of Lanting's albatross images at the National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall, 17th and M Streets, N.W. The exhibit features 34 large-scale photo panels of the big birds, and will be on display through February 10, 2008.

Lanting and Eckstrom, in the photo to the left taken in Zambia, are married, and have a studio in Santa Cruz. Check out their Web site at http://www.lanting.com/.