Bette Korber is a video artist and has been a finalist in the Best Video category for a number of years, but did you know that she is also an award winning scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory? She is a computational biologist focusing on the molecular biology and population genetics of the HIV virus that causes infection and eventually AIDS and contributed heavily to efforts to obtain an effective HIV vaccine. She also helped fund an AIDS orphanage in South Africa, working through Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity (NOAH).

Somehow, she finds time to produce videos that highlight some of the environmental and health issues we are facing in the 21st century. Her latest is Rivers Run, a cover of the composition by songwriter Karine Polwart, a beautiful song about rivers and climate change that is infused with a touch of hope. The song was recorded at Moonflower Sound recording in Taos with Korber providing the vocals, guitar and Irish whistle, Peter Oviatt engineering, producing and adding harmonies, banjo and bass and arranger Brent Berry on percussion and the natural sounds of a Taos thunderstorm thrown in for good measure. View the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn25isz3YIY