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A Tribute to Former EIS Team member, Dr. Alberto Behar

By Extreme Ice Survey On January 13, 2015 47 Comments

By James Balog

A dear friend of mine, and of the Extreme Ice Survey, passed away this past Friday, January 9, 2015. Dr. Alberto Behar, a researcher affiliated with both the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA and Arizona State University, was a specialist in conceiving, building and deploying exotic electronic instruments in difficult places. [...]

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Chasing Ice Wins Emmy® Award!

By Extreme Ice Survey On October 21, 2014 1 Comment

October 7, 2014

We are happy to announce that CHASING ICE is the recipient of the 2014 Emmy® Award in partnership with National Geographic for Outstanding Nature Program. On April 19, 2013, CHASING ICE premiered on the National Geographic Channel. The film has been screened on all 7 continents and in more then 175 countries.

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James Balog at Dickinson College

By Extreme Ice Survey On October 21, 2014 208 Comments

The 2014 recipient of the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism conducted a campus residency September 22-24, 2014 to meet with students, faculty and alumni.

Dickinsonians gathered to view a free screening of the award-winning documentary, Chasing Ice, as part of Homecoming & Family Weekend festivities. Two days later, Balog [...]

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James Balog Receives Duke LEAF Award

By Extreme Ice Survey On March 6, 2014 Add Comment

Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Durham, NC

Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment will present the award to James this month at the Griffith Film Theater on the Duke University campus.

“As a photographer, James Balog inspires us to action for the environment through both shock and awe. His shocking pictorial record of change [...]

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ABC News Digital: Melting Ice & Glaciers—Antarctica

By Extreme Ice Survey On March 6, 2014 178 Comments

March 6, 2014

ABC News Digital reports on our team’s success in Antarctica.

To view the story, click here.

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James Balog to Receive Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College

By Extreme Ice Survey On March 6, 2014 Add Comment

March 4, 2014
Carlisle, Pa.

James Balog will receive The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism in May. The prize was created to focus attention on the need to reduce the impact of human lives on the planet, particularly given the rising population predictions for this [...]

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Success on the Antarctic Peninsula

By Extreme Ice Survey On March 6, 2014 Add Comment

22 February 2014

Dan McGrath, Resident Scientist, Earth Vision Institute

The faint glow of the soon to be rising sun welcomes our arrival as we nose into Andvord Bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula. We passed unscathed through the Drake Passage thanks to calm conditions and quickly motored south to 64˚ 50’. Here, the glaciers [...]

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EIS & EVI in Antarctica: Penguin Cams at Brown Bluff

By Extreme Ice Survey On March 6, 2014 Add Comment

1 March 2014

Stephen Nowland, Staff Photographer and Multimedia Producer- Earth Vision Institute

The Antarctic Peninsula separates the warm maritime climate of the Bellingshausen Sea to the west and the cold, dry continental climate of the Weddell Sea to the east. Thus far, we have been traveling and working along the western edge, [...]

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