I’m honored to be one of five finalists in the Bloomberg Greendocs film festival, which is being hosted in Seattle this year. My short film about glaciologist Mauri Pelto and his daughter Jill, Shaped by Ice, will screen at Seattle Art Museum on July 16.

Shaped by Ice is an Afterdrop spinoff. Originally I wanted to find a way to link glacier science with the ice swimming record that Melissa Kegler was attempting to break. That project was unable to secure funding, but I’m thrilled this one is finding an audience and bringing attention to the vitally important work that climate scientists do.

The North Cascade Glacier Climate Project begin in the early 80s when a then 20-something Mauri Pelto began visiting a group of about a dozen glaciers in the North Cascades. His idea was to return 50 years in a row to document how those glaciers respond to climate change. The results have been sobering: two of those glaciers no longer exist, and in the 42 years he’s been visiting the glaciers, they have documented a 30 percent loss of ice.

I hope to see you at SAM on July 16 – here is your registration link so you can join us.