Submitted by Terry Nagel, communications manager, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

The public is invited to a free screening of "Chasing Ice" on Monday, March 4, on the Stanford University campus, followed by a discussion with the film's producer and director, Jeff Orlowski, along with three climate change experts who are fellows with the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the CEMEX Auditorium on the Stanford campus.

"Chasing Ice" chronicles the story of photographer James Balog's mission to gather evidence of the changing planet. With a team of young adventurers, he deployed time-lapse cameras across the Arctic to capture the world's glaciers as they melted. The result is a visual record that compresses years into seconds and documents ancient mountains of ice disappearing.

"Chasing Ice" has won awards at film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival's Excellence in Cinematography Award for a U.S. documentary, and the Environmental Media Association's 22nd annual Best Documentary Award.

Orlowski, who graduated from Stanford in 2006, is the founder of Exposure, a film company dedicated to socially relevant films.

The Stanford Woods fellows participating in the panel discussion are Terry Root, who is featured in the film and works on large-scale ecological questions with a focus on impacts of global warming; Noah Diffenbaugh, who recently released the results of a snowpack study that predicts this source of freshwater is shrinking; and Michael Wara, an expert on environmental law and policy.

Yost House in Residential Education, an independent residence on the Stanford campus, and the Stanford Woods Institute collaborated to present this program.

The CEMEX auditorium is located at 641 Knight Way on the Stanford campus. Parking is available under the facility in Parking Lot PS-7 off of Campus Drive (across from Maples Pavilion). Take the elevator or stairs to the ground level and proceed to the Cemex Auditorium (at the north end of the complex). To see a map, click here.

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