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The EIS is an innovative, long-term photography project that merges art and science, to give a “visual voice” to the planet’s changing ecosystems. One aspect of the EIS is an extensive portfolio of photos, celebrating the beauty, art and architecture, of ice.
The project is a collaboration between photographers, filmmakers, engineers, scientists and educators, all devoted to documenting and communicating, the changes transforming the arctic and alpine landscapes, today.
Currently, 27 time lapse cameras are deployed at 18 glaciers in the Nepalese Himalaya, Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. The time-lapse videos reveal how fast climate change is transforming large regions of the planet.
The time-lapse cameras can function in and withstand temperatures down to minus 40 F., deep snow, winds up to 160 miles per hour, torrential rain and rock fall. Typically these cameras are anchored to cliff faces, above the glaciers. Each unit weighs more than 100 pounds. Solar panels collect power that is stored in batteries.
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