Green at Google Presents Jenny Ross & Kassie Siegel: "Polar Bears" March 20, 2012

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"For over ten years, wildlife photographer Jenny E. Ross has travelled to the Arctic, often with some of the world's leading polar bear researchers, to document the Arctic's top predator. Displaying dozens of her stunning photographs, Ross explains how she captures compelling Arctic images that are not only visually spectacular but also convey crucial information about polar bear biology, ecology, behavior, and conservation. She discusses the technical, artistic, and story-telling challenges involved, as well as her first-hand experiences of ongoing rapid climate change at the top of the world.

In February 2005, Kassie Siegel petitioned the Bush administration to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming, and ultimately achieved listing of the bear as a "threatened" species. She shares the inside story of the ongoing fight for polar bear protection.

About the Speakers

Jenny E. Ross is an award-winning photographer specializing in wildlife natural history and conservation. Her awards include the World Press Photo Award (most prestigious award for photojournalism), Nature's Best Award for Wildlife Photography and the Philip Hyde Award for Environmental Photography. Her photographs have been exhibited at the California Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and many more. Former President Bill Clinton also has her photographs in his private collection.

Kassie Siegel is Director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute. She develops and implements campaigns for the reduction of greenhouse gas pollution and the protection of plants and animals threatened by global warming, including the Center's petition to protect the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. Prior to attending Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and working for the Center, she was a natural-history guide leading wilderness trips in Alaska."