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Louisiana Considered: Preserving New Orleans’ Cemeteries, NASA’s Plans To Explore Venus

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
Stephanie Ryan Cameron
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Save Our Cemeteries
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
  • City of New Orleans Cemetery Superintendent Emily Ford and New Orleans Mayor’s Office Deputy Communications Director David Lee Simmons tell us about efforts to preserve New Orleans’ iconic cemeteries.
  • Tulane University Assistant Professor Jennifer Whitten tells us about her work on NASA’s VERITAS spacecraft, designed to create maps of Venus’s surface and analyze what substances constitute the planet’s surface and interior.
Karl Lengel worked at New Orleans Public Radio for more than two decades before leaving the station in 2023.
Aubry is a reporter, producer and operations assistant in Baton Rouge.