Mapping the Huron River is a video recording from a multimedia performance done as collaboration among artists and scientists on the cycle of water and the relationship of water and culture. The project was implemented as part of Art on Earth, a program intended to bring together science and art across University of Michigan academic units. During 2008 the program was oriented to Arts and the Environment and promoted projects around the four elements as themes. ?Mapping the Huron River? was conceived by the water group as an environmental education outreach piece. The performance includes videography, poetry, dance, acting, music, photography and painting within a scientific context. It takes the audience into an immersive experience: from rain replenishing the ground water at the Huron River headwaters to downstream towards Lake Erie, the Atlantic Ocean and back into rain. The piece describes the river journey from pristine to less desirable conditions as water flows through urban areas through images, sound and spoken words. A start celebrating nature ends on a dark note on the extermination of native freshwater mussels in segments of the rivers within the University of Michigan campus, and cautions about the consequences of unsustainable environmental

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