News & Events
[Feb 9 2010]
WPI and Mines establish first center dedicated to sustainable metals recovery and recycling: With National Science Foundation and industry support, the center will develop technologies that will cut energy usage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...more[Feb 2 2010]
Mines' Bierstadt painting conserved, on display at the Denver Art Museum: GOLDEN, Colo., Feb. 2, 2010 – A rare painting by renowned 19th century western landscape artist Albert Bierstadt, which was donated to Colorado School ...more[Jan 26 2010]
Mines and East Middle School, engineering a winning partnership : Golden, Colo., Jan. 26, 2010—Colorado School of Mines and East Middle School in Aurora Public Schools have been recognized as an exemplary K-12 – ...morePeople, Places & Activities
Award-winning photographer James Balog will present “Extreme Ice Survey” (EIS) Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Bunker Auditorium in the Green Center. Balog's appearance at Mines is sponsored by the Hennebach Program in the Humanities.
EIS is a monumental and stunning look at the impact of climate change on the world’s glaciers. Using time-lapse photography over periods of years, conventional photography, and video, the EIS is the most wide-ranging visual glacier study ever conducted. The EIS team has stationed 27 time-lapse cameras at 15 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountains and does annual repeat photography in Iceland, the Alps, and Bolivia.
Balog's work has received international acclaim, including the Leica Medal of Excellence and the premier awards for nature and science photography at World Press Photo in Amsterdam. His exhibitions have been shown at more than a hundred museums and galleries around the world. His work has appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Life, Vanity Fair, the New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and Outside.