Glaciers and climate change
Skidmore will screen the documentary The Life & Death of Glaciers on Monday, Jan. 29, followed by a panel discussion. The event, titled "Global Climate, Global Health, and Global Culture in the Anthropocene," will begin at 7 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.
The Life & Death of Glaciers, produced by Chip Duncan and originally released by Discovery Education, is the culmination of 25 years of
glacial documentation in Alaska's Juneau Icefield and St. Elias Mountains.
The panel will consist of Duncan, climatologist Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore
Labs, global health expert Hernando Garzon of Kaiser Permanente and postcolonial scholar
Bina Gogineni of Skidmore's English Department.
Duncan has spent more than three decades as a documentarian, writer and still photographer.
His company has created more than 40 long-form documentaries and broadcast series
for broadcast, cable and media platforms including PBS, HBO, TLC, Discovery, Showtime,
Lifetime and the Sundance Channel.
Santer was a lead scientist for the 1995 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) report that coined the term "global warming." Garzon has been involved in crisis
relief for numerous natural disasters, some of which have a direct link to climate
change and the global health risks associated with it. Gogineni has studied human
impact on Earth's health from historical, political, and cultural perspectives.
The event will be free and open to the public, with seating on a first-come, first-served
basis. The screening is sponsored by the Skidmore Geosciences Department, Environmental
Studies and Sciences Department, Health and Human Physiological Sciences Department,
Dean of Faculty Office and the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS).
