Jason Stoughton

Supervisory public affairs specialist

In addition to being an unabashed science fanboy, Jason Stoughton is a writer, photographer, video producer, and former director of NIST internal communications (now working at the National Science Foundation). Before coming to NIST he worked in broadcast television and video production in a variety of roles from creative director to night-shift, dub-room technician, somehow winning 11 Emmy awards in the process.

Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:13
The Last Artifact Brings Metrology to TV‘This grant provided us with the means to make a beautiful science film that could have a large impact’
Thu, 10/01/2020 - 12:02
Remember that documentary you saw that finally explained metrology and why measurements are critical to practically every aspect of modern life? Yeah, neither do I. Probably because that documentary doesn’t exist... or does it? The Last Artifact, a…
More Unidentified Museum ObjectsBasement-dwelling enigmas from NIST
Thu, 08/30/2018 - 12:01
The underground storage shelves of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Museum are filled with loads of charmingly weird objects accrued throughout more than a century of scientific work. However, the original purpose of quite a…
The Test of Time: NIST’s Wall of Many Stones It’s a beautiful array of 2,352 stones waiting to show you how they’re faring
Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:13
Frequented by more deer than people, the NIST stone test wall lives a fairly isolated existence. Out among the trees and the grass on the south end of the Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus, it cuts an imposing and visually bizarre figure. Set in the…