#ngozumpa

ZEAL OPTICS SUPPORTS EXPEDITION ON NGOZUMPA GLACIER IN NEPAL WITH ASTRONAUT SCIENTIST ULYANA HORODYSKYJ AND ARTIST BENJAMIN POTHIER

JUNE 9, 2016 | Boulder, CO 

ZEAL’s thrilled to announce that we’ll be joining Dr. Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj, a Scientist-Astronaut candidate and glaciologist on her expedition to Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal this month to protect the eyes leading the expedition as well as help share data and aid in the rebuild efforts behind a high altitude weather station which was destroyed during the 2015 Earthquake. Read more about Ulyana’s aim to promote citizen science is supported through her program Science in the Wild!

Photographer, Documentary Film director and Anthropology Researcher Benjamin Pothier is joining Dr. Ulyana Horodyskyj, a Glaciologist and Climate change educator trained as a Scientist-Astronaut in the PoSSUM program, for an expedition to Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal in May to June 2016. The Team will conduct scientific research regarding the glacier melting that could become a threat to population nearby, repair a weather station which was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake and plan to make a donation of a solar power system to a Sherpa community in need.

Benjamin is a PhD Candidate at the CAIIA Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Integrative Arts, Planetary Collegium programme, Plymouth University UK, with three previous expeditions in the Arctic Circle. His work and research have been presented worldwide from Johannesburg to Tromsø's northernmost University. He plans to direct a documentary about the expedition, but also to test innovative gears and devices.

_He has exhibited his photographs in the past in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Paris and the French Embassy in South Africa _

_The high altitude and specific conditions of the Ngozumpa glacier provide a perfect test ground for innovative gear. Beyond the documentary about the expedition, The Team will conduct various scientific experiments and test innovative products like dehydrated space food, new techwear products and more! You can contact him at [email protected]  or on the Art and Consciousness Expeditions website: http://Ace4.International and view his photographs and film at** http://benipi.com.** _

_Dr. Ulyana Horodyskyj is leading the Science in the Wild programme. If you fit the physical requirement and are interested by this unique experience, you could even be part of the expedition and featured in the documentary! More Information about the Science in the Wild outreach programme can be read at http://scienceinthewild.com/outreach/ _

Can you believe that THIS is what a glacier looks like? True story - it's called a supraglacial lake, and it literally sits atop the glacier. There are several types of supraglacial lakes, classified largely by their location within the glacier. "Base-level" lakes are at the hydrological base of the glacier, while "perched" lakes are literally HIGHER than base-level lakes. It is theorized that perched lakes drain into base-level lakes through ice tunnels that run through the glacier.