Extreme Ice Survey
“Global warming is a non-partisan issue having environmental, social, and health consequences of vital importance to every person on the planet, now and for generations to come.” -James Balog
The WILD Foundation is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Extreme Ice Survey, an initiative of James Balog, the outstanding conservation photographer and founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers. This innovative project documents short-term, rapid changes in glaciers, caused by global warming. EIS is the most wide-ranging study of glaciers ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography.
Currently, over twenty-five time-lapse Nikon D200 cameras are strategically positioned to capture glacial change in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, the Alps and the Rockies. The sites were chosen for their scientific value, their representation of regional conditions, their ease of access and their photogenic quality. The cameras must endure some of the harshest arctic conditions – winds up to 160mph, temperatures plummeting to -40F. The EIS team must also endure these conditions when installing, retrieving and removing the cameras.
The results – Astounding real-time images portraying global warming in a real and immediate way through visual evidence of glacial retreat.
The goal – A major multi-media outreach campaign to raise awareness of glacial retreat and global warming. Visit the Extreme Ice Survey website >>
If you want to support EIS directly, please just mention EIS when you donate here…
About the Photographer
For nearly 30 years, James Balog has consistently broken new ground in the art of photographing nature. A former mountain guide with a graduate degree in geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar icecaps. His book Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife is widely hailed as a major conceptual breakthrough in nature photography. Balog was the first photographer ever commissioned to create a full plate of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service, and many major magazines, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, Life, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Audubon and Outside have published his work.
“Each new series by James Balog represents a quantum leap in creativity, which takes us deeper into the ultimate mystery of humanity’s relationship to the natural world. He is a visionary and his works are like sacred objects.”
–James Nachtwey, TIME magazine photographer