Keynote Speaker: NASA - Astronaut and Polar Scientist Don Pettit -
IPY and the International Space Station
Ice Fest Film Series (in collaboration with the International Film Series)
An evening with Michael Brown, Award-Winning Boulder Filmmaker of Serac Adventure Films
Muenzinger Auditorium (E050) at 7.00pm
Michael Brown, Boulder, Colorado, Filmmaker, age 35. Director of "Vision of Everest" and three time National Emmy Award winner for cinematography. Michael is a filmmaker first who took up adventure sports in the process of making films. Michael has participated in 21 international expeditions that have included first kayak descents of wild rivers, deep cave explorations, rock climbing, skiing and mountaineering. In May of 2000 Michael reached the summit of Mount Everest while making a film called "Everest Dreams" for NBC Sports. Michael is the president of Serac Adventure Films, a film and video production company specializing in expedition adventure films.
Capturing blind climber Erik Weihenmayer's ascent of Everest is just one of many accomplishments of filmmaker Michael Brown and Serac Adventure Films. Following selected clips and a conversation with the filmmaker with Robin Beeck of the Colorado film Society, the BBC film Climate Chaos, directed by brother Nicolas, will be shown. Filmed in polar regions and other locations.
Saturday, March 10th
FAMILY DAY
ATLAS Building and Muenzinger Auditorium (E050) 10.00am - 5.00pm (doors open at 9.00am)
PRESENTATIONS:
ATLAS 100
10.00am Welcome by Chancellor Bud Peterson and David Skaggs
10.30am "Hot" Cold Science at the edge of the Arctic Ocean: A Videoconference with scientists at NOAA's point Barrow Alaska Research Outpost
12.00pm Bill Manley (INSTAAR) and Ross Swick (NSIDC) on Google Earth tools
1.00pm Todd Hinkley (NICL) Ice is Nice - Inside the National Ice Core Lab
2.00pm Dian Olsen Belanger (Author) - The IGY in Antarctica: Building a Legacy of Science and Peace
3.00pm John Behrendt (INSTAAR) - Graduate Student experience in Antarctica furing the International Geophysical Year
4.00pm Stan Ruttenberg (NCAR-retired) - Behind the scenes of IGY Film
ATLAS 102
11.00am Ute Herzfeld (CIRES) - From Micro-Scale to Continental Scale--Studies of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets and Glaciers
12.00pm Rosemary Keough - Antarctica:Passion and Obsession (Suitable for Kids)
1.00pm Suzanne Metlay (Fiske Planetarium) Hunting Fossils in Antarctica (Suitable for Kids)
2.00pm Caspar Ammann (NCAR) Ice in the driest desert on Earth: The Atacama
3.00pm Taneil Uttal (NOAA) and Russian colleagues - Tales from Tiksi: Observing Arctic Air
4.00pm Diane McKnight (INSTAAR) The Lost Seal (Suitable for Kids)
Muenzinger Auditorium
11.00am Ryan Vachon (CIRES) - Hard Core: High Altitude Ice Core Drilling at the Top of thr Andes
12.00pm Jim Collinson - Ohio State University - The Role of Antarctica in the Proof of Gondwanaland
1.00pm Mark Serreze (NSIDC) and Marika Holland (UCAR) - Arctic Sea Ice Change (Suitable for Kids)
2.00pm Terry Haran (NSIDC) Where (Almost) No One Has Gone Before: The 2003 Aurora Australis Cruise and Megadunes (Suitable for Kids)
3.00pm Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer (NSIDC) - Ice Trek (Suitable for Kids)
4.00pm Tad Pfeffer (INSTAAR)- obversation, Knowledge, and Belief: Images of the Arctic as Art and as Science (Suitable for Kids)
Show and Tell Room 105
Book Signings and Readings -
Dian Olsen Belanger, Deep Freeze
John Behrendt,
Innocents on the Ice - A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration
The Ninth Circle - A Memoir of Life and Death in Antarctica 1960 - 1962
Diane McKnight, The Lost Seal
Bob Henson, The Rough Guide to Climate Change
Wes LeMasurier and Jim Collinson - Dinosaur Bones from Antarctica
Hallways of the ATLAS Building
Art and Inquiry Fair Show on Ice and Snow by students from Whittier Elementary International Baccaleaureate
Ice Fest Film Series (in collaboration with the International Film Series)
Polar Cult Classic - John Carpenter's THE THING (1982)
Muenzinger Auditorium (E050) at 7.00pm and 9.00pm,
Once in a while, the creators of a horror movie will just nail it. Everything in John Carpenter's The Thing works; the performances, the music, the monster(s), and especially the direction. This movie wil be remembered fondly as one of the most underrated horror movies of the 80's. (S. Weinberg, eFilmCritic) US, 1982, in English/Norwegian, Color, 109 min., Rated R, 35mm
Sunday, March 11th
MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY in the ATLAS Building
10.00am - 5.00pm (doors open at 9.00am)
There will be booths and demonstrations available throughout the day relating to the environment and climate.
Activities and Presentations available in ATLAS 100
Youth Summit
10.00am - 12.30pm
Fourteen year old Alex Budd, who has trained with TheClimateProject.org with Al Gore will give a presentation that will be followed by a discussion on a local climate action plan. Young people are encouraged to participate.
1.00pm - 3.00pm
