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ICE FEST

CU Boulder Campus

Schedule

A celebration of ice and snow at the start of the International Polar Year 2007 - 2008

Thursday, March 8th

Friday, March 9th

Saturday, March 10th - Family Day

Sunday, March 11th - Make a Difference Day

Thursday, March 8th
Arts and Sciences in the Arctic and Antarctic
Ice Stories Series: Old Main Auditorium
2.00pm - 4.00pm

  • James Balog (National Geographic photographer) - The Extreme Ice Survey: a journey to vanishing ice on three continents


  • Rosemarie Keough - Antarctica: Passion or Obsession - Keough Art

Images and Tales from the Polar Regions

  • An exhibit of arctic and antarctic books and photography

  • Special Collections Department, Room N345 in Norlin Library
    Opens March 8, 2007 in support of Ice Fest until June 29, 2007
    Visit the website

    Ice Fest Film Series (in collaboration with the International Film Series)
    Dersu Uzala -
    (1975) New Kurasawa Print
    Based on early 20th-century explorer Vladmir Aresniev's memoirs, Akira Kurosawa's Derzu Uzala tells the story of an unusual friendship between Arseniev (Yuri Solomin) and the nomadic tribal hunter for whom the film is named (Maksim Munzuk). (S. Greydanua, Decent Films Guide).
    Japan/Soviet Union, 1975, in Russian, Color, 141 min., Rated G, 35mm

    Friday, March 9th
    Polar Perspectives: Past, Present and Future

    Ice Stories Series: Muenzinger Auditorium (E050)
    2.00pm - 3.30pm
    • Mark McCaffrey - CIRES - The 125 Legacy of the International Polar Year (10 mins)
    • Roger Barry - Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center - Opening remarks
    • 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

    • Making a Difference Panel Discussion - Moderated by Suzanne Buhr

    • The following panel members will be available from 1.00pm to 3.00pm
    • Bob Henson (UCAR)

    • Dave Newport (CU Environment Center)

    • Jim White (INSTAAR)
    • Lisa Dilling (CIRES)
    • Carl Koval (CU Energy Initiative

    • 3.00pm - 5.00pm
      Town Hall Meeting
      Mark Ruzzin

      Ice Fest Film Series (in collaboration with the International Film Series)
      The Thing From Another World (1951)
      ATLAS 102 - 7.00pm only
      This is one of the better science-fiction cheapie films, one that became a cult classic. It is a wonderfull inane film about a flying saucer landing on the North Pole and a superior alien emerging who looks like Frankenstein. Director Howard Hawkes wastes no time with any liberal messages about why this creature came here...The cast is perfect, their non-chalant attitude gives the film its racaus mood and allows the warlike atmosphere between beast and man to be a battle over brawn versus wits. (D. Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews) US, 1951, in English, Color, 87 min., Unrated, 35mm.