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Director sitiing on the Greenland Ice Sheet with camera on tripod.

Director sitiing on the Greenland Ice Sheet with camera on tripod.

Director Kathy Kasic films from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Photo: Kathy Kasic

Documentary featuring UB’s ice sheet research wins Emmy

_{Release Date: June 16, 2026}

“The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice” won the national News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary at a ceremony held last month in New York City.

Researchers featured in the film include Elizabeth Thomas, PhD, associate professor in the UB Department of Earth Sciences and a faculty affiliate of the UB RENEW Institute. She was interviewed in her North Campus lab for the film and appears in it alongside RENEW postdoctoral fellow John Michael Aguilar.

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