Project team Extreme Ice Survey

1 project team

1.1 founder
1.2 research team
1.3 scientific advisors

project team
founder

the images of photojournalist james balog have received international acclaim, including heinz award, leica medal of excellence , premier awards both nature , science photography @ world press photo in amsterdam. exhibitions of images have been shown @ more 100 museums , galleries greece paris, new york los angeles. first photographer ever commissioned create series of stamps u.s. postal service; 1996 release featured america’s endangered wildlife. balog’s work has been published in numerous major magazines, including national geographic, new yorker, life, vanity fair, new york times magazine, audubon , outside. balog author of 7 books: wildlife requiem (1984), survivors: new vision of endangered wildlife (1990), anima (1993), james balog’s animals z (1996), animal (1999), tree: new vision of american forest (2004), , extreme ice now: vanishing glaciers , changing climate, progress report (2009). balog, sustainability ambassador north face, holds bachelor s degree in speech/communications boston college , master s degree in geomorphology university of colorado.

research team

jason box – researcher @ ohio state university byrd polar research center , assistant professor of geography @ ohio state. since 1994, box has completed 21 expeditions greenland ice sheet. authority on relationship between greenland glaciers , earth’s climate, contributed 2007 intergovernmental panel on climate change summary report.
daniel b. fagre – ecologist , climate change research coordinator u.s. geological survey in glacier national park, montana. fagre has been doing repeat photography on dwindling ice masses of glacier national park 2 decades , author of 2007 book, sustaining rocky mountain landscapes: science, policy , management of crown of continent ecosystem.
tad pfeffer – researcher @ institute of arctic , alpine research , professor of civil, environmental , architectural engineering @ university of colorado @ boulder. pfeffer’s research includes studies of mechanics , dynamics of glaciers, , heat , mass transfer in snow. has worked on glaciers 30 years, including 2 decades of field work on alaska’s columbia glacier. pfeffer extensive work photography , photogrammetry of glaciers , landscapes, using imagery describe , analyze glacier changes. pfeffer’s photography has appeared in numerous scientific publications, american scientist , geo (germany) magazines, bbc television productions, special exhibitions , in both movie , book inconvenient truth, al gore.
conrad anker – mountaineer known work in antarctica , in himalaya, in locating body of george mallory on mt. everest in 1999.

scientific advisors

mark fahnestock, university of new hampshire
martin truffer, university of alaska
ian joughin, polar science center, university of washington
oddur sigurdsson, president, icelandic glaciological society
konrad steffen, director, cooperative institute research in environmental sciences (cires), university of colorado
james white, director, institute of arctic , alpine research (instaar), university of colorado




^ wildlife requiem. international center of photography. isbn 0-933642-06-7. 
^ survivors: new vision of endangered wildlife. harry n. abrams. isbn 0-8109-3908-8. 
^ anima. arts alternative press. isbn 0-9636266-0-4. 
^ james balog s animals z. chronicle books. isbn 978-0-8118-1339-6. 
^ animal. graphis. isbn 978-1-888001-80-8. 
^ tree: new vision of american forest. barnes & noble books. isbn 978-1-4027-2818-1. 
^ extreme ice now: vanishing glaciers , changing climate, progress report. national geographic books. isbn 978-1-4262-0401-2. 
^ new insight everest mystery . new york times. november 27, 1999.