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Public Screening of Ice and the Skya French Documentary about Claude Lorius

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Date:

4 Dec 2015

Time:

7:00 p.m.

Venue:

LT8, 2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park

Speaker(s):

Dr. Jérôme Chappellaz (CNRS Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement),scientific advisor of this documentary and Professor LIU Lin (Earth System Science Programme,CUHK), a Hong Kong-based glaciologist

Enquiries:

39439624 essc@cuhk.edu.hk

Event Details:

In the midst of the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, a special public screening of a French documentary Ice and the Sky (French: La Glace et le ciel) will be held in the evening on December 4, 2015 at CUHK. This film, produced and directed by Luc Jacquet, tells the life and the scientific accomplishments of Cloude Lorius, who was among the first scientists used ice core records extracted in Antarctica to study climate changes.

LANGUAGE: In French with English subtitles
YEAR RELEASED: 2015
PLAY TIME: 90 minutes
DIRECTOR: Luc Jacquet, director of the Oscar-winning March Of The Penguins

More information about the film and its associated education programme can be found at http://iceandsky.com