The Risan Project’s Earth Day at the Nantucket Dreamland, April 22nd, presented by Remain Nantucket in partnership with the Town of Nantucket, the Nantucket Land & Water Council, The Trustees, Sustainable Nantucket and White Elephant Resorts. Featuring a film screening of Cresta Alta, Risan Media’s climate science and sustainability documentary film, followed by community sustainability panel discussion.
Panelists:
Darci Schofield, Director of The Islands, The Trustees
Emily Molden, Executive Director, Nantucket Land and Water Council
RJ Turcotte, Nantucket Waterkeeper, Nantucket Land and Water Council
Vincent Murphy, Sustainability Programs Manager, The Town of Nantucket
Leah Hill, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, The Town of Nantucket
Posie Constable, Managing Director, Sustainable Nantucket
The Risan Project produced a film screening of Cresta Alta in Fairplay, Colorado on March 27th, 2026 with a community sustainability panel discussion following the film.
Featuring:
Cara Doyle, Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative
Wendy Kerner, Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest
Lori Whipple, Wonder Forest
Robert W. Gilmore, United States Antarctic Program
David McKie, Town of Alma Recycling Program
Kelsey Sprys, Town of Fairplay Special Events Coordinator
Full Length Panel Discussion Link:
Produced by Risan Media, Cresta Alta chronicles a journey to Alaska, Iceland, Chile and Peru to document glaciological research expeditions and sustainability.
The Cresta Alta Film Tour is engaging audiences throughout the US with film screenings are followed by Risan Studies' community sustainability panel discussions and a Q&A with environmental filmmaker and socially-conscious musician, Todd Anders Johnson, who studied development issues at the University of Washington.
The Cresta Alta Film behind-the-scenes video series shares Todd Anders Johnson’s global adventures and captures his remote filming on glaciological research expeditions with international climate scientists.
In this new series, Todd shares candid perspectives and experiences while filming in spectacular remote glaciated mountain environments and embarking on adventurous outdoor activities with new friends from around the world.
Follow Todd filming while backcountry snowboarding along the Icelandic fjords, ice climbing in Alaska, sea kayaking in the West Fjords and backpacking and trekking on Alaskan and Icelandic glaciers. In Cresta Alta, join Todd on a 10 day backpacking expedition to the McCall Glacier in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with Dr. Matt Nolan; setting up basecamp at the Gamma Glacier in the Olivares Basin, high in the Chilean Andes with Dr. Sebastian Mernild; trekking to Lake Pacacocha, situated at 15,000 feet in elevation, in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca with Dr. Rachel Chisolm; joining the Icelandic Glaciological Society jeeping up the Vatnajökull ice cap to conduct ice core drilling and meeting with the President of Iceland to discuss his experiences and perspectives on climate change impacts in Iceland.
Risan Studies screened The Cresta Alta Film at Summit High School in Breckenridge, Colorado in September for the 9th and 10th grades in partnership with the Summit Sustainability Club and environmental science teacher, Jon Wischmeyer.
Produced by Risan Media, the Cresta Alta film documents a journey to Alaska, Iceland, Chile and Peru to document glaciological research expeditions and sustainability. Parallels of ecological impacts of climate change in Arctic and Andean regions are revealed on glaciological research expeditions in Chile, Alaska, Iceland and Peru. Cresta Alta follows the commitment of scientists who travel deep into the wilderness to gather field data that informs our collective understanding of climate change impacts on our planet. Sustainability initiatives in these same locations offer insight into the potential for viable alternatives and solutions.
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