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James Balog "Extreme Ice Survey" on NOVA

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Posted by David Taylor on March 29, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I have a fascination with glaciers & ice caps. Photographer James Balog (http://www.jamesbalog.com) has been documenting glaciers for several years now, all over the northern hemisphere. A new NOVA-National Geographic special is airing on PBS & covers the rapidly advancing and melting glaciers & degrading ice caps around our planet. Really beautiful cinematography & photography, fascinating science (god, if my high school & college professors ready that last part... :smile:), and great narration.
Highly recommend you watch this. Entertaining, inspiring, and more than a little scary.
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Posted by Nancy J. Wagner on March 29, 2009 at 1:57 AM
Hi Dave, Thanks for the tip on this program, will definitely watch it.

Nancy
www.NancyWagnerPhotography.com
Posted by Richard Wong on March 29, 2009 at 2:42 AM
Yes, I highly recommend watching this program too. It was on in LA this week. Really great work by James Balog and the team.
Posted by Heather Nilson on March 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM
I caught this on PBS a few days ago (last weekend???). It was a fascinating show.
Posted by David Taylor on March 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I also noticed that you can watch this full program on the PBS/NOVA website for free. It is broken into 6 chapters of about 8 minutes each. I'll post a link at the bottom of this entry.
BUT FIRST! I've got to get me one of those waterproof camera bags that James Balog is using at the end of the show, one of the last set up clips from his trip to Iceland. It looks like a big Zip Lock Freezer Bag with a camera mount inside. Any ideas what this equipment is???
Anyway - here's the link for the on-line viewing:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/program.html
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Posted by David Taylor on March 30, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Sure thing Steve, I do what I can :smile:
Posted by David Taylor on March 30, 2009 at 1:39 AM
Alright did some researching on my own - looks like he was using a Ewa-Marine housing
http://www.ewa-marine.de/index.php?id=49
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Posted by Zack Schnepf on March 30, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Great program, I loved it. Also pretty alarming what they're finding about the rate of glacial melt per year.