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GSA2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

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Mentor a Student at the Annual Meeting

Mentoring is a powerful way to guide a student toward future success.
Please consider mentoring an On To the Future (OTF) student at this year’s meeting.
Your help and experience in assisting students to navigate their first GSA meeting will be invaluable.

Learn more at

community.geosociety.org/otf/annualmeetingprogram/mentors.

LUNCHTIME ENLIGHTENMENT

Buy your food and take it in

The Art & Science of Chasing Ice team braved treacherous conditions—crevasses, rockslides,
avalanches, temperatures down to −40 °F, and frigid river
James Balog, Founder & President, Earth Vision Institute crossings—and the images they captured provide the “smoking
& Extreme Ice Survey gun” of climate change—evidence that every audience can
understand. His lecture will provide a fascinating exploration
Monday, 2 Nov., 12:15–1:15 p.m. of humanity’s relationship with nature and a profound under-
standing of how climate change is affecting our planet. It is
For more than 30 years, photographer nothing short of a call to arms to one of the greatest challenges
James Balog (“BAY-log”) has broken of our generation.
new conceptual and artistic ground on
GSA TODAY | AUGUST 2015 one of the most important issues of our
era: human modification of our planet’s
natural systems. To reveal the impact
of climate change, Balog founded the
Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most
wide-ranging, ground-based photo-
graphic study of glaciers ever conducted. He and his EIS team
were featured in the 2012 internationally acclaimed, Emmy®
award-winning documentary, Chasing Ice, and in the 2009
NOVA special, Extreme Ice. Balog is the author of ICE: Portraits
of Vanishing Glaciers and seven other books. His photos have
been extensively published in major magazines, including
National Geographic, and exhibited at more than 100 museums
and galleries worldwide.

In this visually stunning presentation, Balog shares the latest
photography and image sequences from the EIS. Balog and his

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