James Balog has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for 25 years. Balog is an avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology who founded the Extreme Ice Survey to reveal the impact of climate change. This is the most wide-ranging photographic study of glaciers ever conducted and has been recognized with the Heinz Award, the Aspen Institute’s Visual Arts & Design Award and the Galen and Barbara Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure.

Balog will share images and stories from his Extreme Ice Survey as a part of The Center’s multidisciplinary project Thin Ice: Journeys In Polar Regions.