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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
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
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Rosemarie Keough - Antarctica: Passion or Obsession - Keough Art
Images and Tales from the Polar Regions
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
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 DAYATLAS 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 - 1962Diane 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, 35mmSunday, 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
- Bob Henson (UCAR)
- Dave Newport (CU Environment Center)
- Jim White (INSTAAR)
- Lisa Dilling (CIRES)
- Carl Koval (CU Energy Initiative
The following panel members will be available from 1.00pm to 3.00pm
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.