About this Event
The DC Environmental Festival is coming back to La Maison Française with : “The Ultimate Ice Mission”, a film produced by AUXYMA for France Télévisions, for the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation 2025, and directed by Florent Muller.
Program:
6pm: Doors open and film screening
7:30pm: Q&A session with Eric Rignot, a world-renowned French-American glaciologist who studies the effects of global climate change on polar ice sheets, featured in The Ultimate Ice Mission.
8:30pm: event conclusion.
About The Ultimate Ice Mission:
The Petermann is one of the largest glaciers in the entire Northern Hemisphere and lies in a lunar canyon in Greenland. Larger and more majestic than Arizona’s Grand Canyon, this breathtaking landscape, never seen by the human eye, is melting like the rest of the poles: in August 2010, it gave birth to an iceberg of over 250 km.
An international mission is thus being launched, led by world-renowned French-American glaciologist Éric Rignot under the aegis of NASA. This mobile mission takes us from the North Pole with Greenland, to the South Pole in Antarctica - a monster that could contribute 10 times more than Greenland to rising sea levels.
Supported by cutting-edge equipment - submarines, satellites, etc. - and alongside renowned scientists and speakers - including Al Gore - we’ll explore the depths of the poles to understand what’s going on beneath those millions of tons of ice, and their impact on the disastrous rising waters.
Information:
Each attendee must have a ticket registered in their name and a government-issued ID that matches the name on the reservation in order to enter the Embassy. No one will be admitted without a reservation and proper ID. Due to strict security measures, please arrive on time. Please allow extra time for security screening.
Resources USA Inc. is a private, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that promotes collaboration between the US and France to encourage innovation in science, technology, culture and higher education, and will not fund any lobbying or other political purposes.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
La Maison Française at the Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road nw, Washington, United States
USD 12.51
