2010 Awards Banquet

The Awards Banquet dinner will be held on Thursday evening, between the hours of 1900h and 2200h. The location is the ballroom at the Captain Cook Hotel.  All registrants are entitled to attend the Awards Banquet.  If you plan to attend the banquet, please indicate so on the registration form by ticking the "Complimentary Banquet Ticket" box. However, additional Guest tickets must be booked in advance when submitting your registration.

In addition to an Invited Talk presented by John Weller, entitled "The Extreme Ice Survey", the Jerlov Award and the Best Student Paper Award will be presented at the dinner. There will be an after dinner dance for all participants.  Music will be provided by "TBA"!

Invited Speaker

John Weller

Weller started working on The Last Ocean with David Ainley in 2004. Since then he has worked full time on the project, wearing many different hats – strategist, grant writer, fundraiser, organizer, graphic designer, and finally, photographer. Weller was recently awarded a 2009 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, which will support further development of the project.


John is a nature photographer and writer based in Boulder, Colorado. He was trained in economics and philosophy at Stanford University, and has been photographing professionally since 1999. His work has been shown in prestigious museums and galleries, and is part of private and corporate collections across the world. He has had more than 20 one-man photography shows since 1999, and his work has been published in magazines including Outdoor Photographer, American Photo, Rangefinder Magazine, and National Geographic.


Weller’s highly acclaimed first book of photography and essays, Great Sand Dunes National Park: Between Light and Shadow, was published in 2004. Reviewers said, “With this moving, haunting, informative and beautiful book, John Weller has become not just the Ansel Adams, but also the Edward Abbey, of the Great Sand Dunes.” –Clay Evans, Boulder Daily Camera Book Review