The Rising Seas Lyme Regis Fossil Festival brings together scientific institutions and universities with the local community and will consider issues such as "who is responsible for global warming?"
Hitachi's TM-1000 tabletop microscope is to feature in a television programme on dinosaurs and palaeontology to be filmed by the BBC's children's television channel, CBBC, on 4 May 2007.
The programme will be filmed at the Rising Seas Lyme Regis Fossil Festival.
The festival brings together arts and science, leading national scientific institutions and universities with the local community and will consider issues such as: "who is responsible for global warming?".
The festival features a youth climate change summit and exhibition offering a range of interactive activities and talks from distinguished experts in the field.
900 students have been invited to review the science and contribute their ideas on what should be done to address these issues.
The TM-1000 will be included as part of the Natural History Museum Fossil Roadshow.
A team of experts from the museum will be in residence throughout the festival, providing a unique, hands-on opportunity for young people of all ages to learn more about fossil, rock or mineral specimens.
The TM-1000 is an ideal tool for inspection of fossils, since they can be examined with excellent depth of focus and at high resolution with no sample preparation.
Inclusion in the television programme will demonstrate the microscope's capabilities to an even wider audience.
Paul Gadsby, Hitachi High Technologies UK general manager, said: "In the year since the launch of the TM-1000, the education sector has shown a huge interest in the microscope.
"Both young and older non- specialists can quickly and easily produce high quality micrographs.
"The Fossil Festival is the latest opportunity for young people to see the instrument in action and follows on from TM-1000's inclusion in a special science exhibition attended by more than 800 GCSE and A-level students at Buckingham Palace towards the end of last year".
