Year of Water Continues With Award Winning Film 'Chasing Ice'
The award-winning documentary film Chasing Ice will be shown at Utah State University’s Caine Performance Hall Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. The film has won numerous awards, including a 2014 News and Documentary Emmy® award for Outstanding Nature Programming.
In related activities, James Balog, the featured photographer of Chasing Ice, will be a featured guest on Utah Public Radio’s “Access Utah” Tuesday, Sept. 29. The program airs at 9 a.m. Balog will also speak that evening at 7 p.m. in the USU Caine Performance Hall.
For more than 30 years, Balog, director of the Extreme Ice Survey, has broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era — human modification of the planet’s natural systems. To reveal the impact of climate change, he founded the Extreme Ice Survey, the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted.
The movie depicts a photographer trying to deliver evidence and hope to our carbon-powered planet, promoters said.
More information about the film can be found online.
All events are free and open to the public.
Events are sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Caine College of the Arts, College of Natural Resources and the Department of Art and Design.
For more information about these and other USU Year of Water events, see its website.
USU 2015 Year of Water
From the university’s earliest moments, its core mission was to predict, then research, then systematically and scientifically solve Utah’s water problems and address the state’s water needs. Over 127 years later, Utah State University engineers, hydrologists, agronomists, sociologists, climate scientists and other researchers are still the foremost voices on issues related to water in the state. USU’s water specialists today are among the nation’s and even the world’s leading experts on many water-related issues, particularly in the areas of management, ecosystems, climate, water education and society’s understanding of this precious resource.
Contact: Paige Pagnucco, 435-797-1429, paige.pagnucco@usu.edu
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