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CO-LABS is proud to join Governor Bill Ritter in presenting the annual Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research reception and dinner on Monday, October 25, 2010. This event recognizes the achievements of Colorado's federal scientists, with Colorado Chief Operating Officer Don Eilliman presenting awards to four Colorado labs for their cutting-edge research with global impact.

THANKS TO OUR CURRENT SPONSORS!

Support through one of our sponsorship opportunities is a great way to show support for Colorado’s federal research labs and provides a great marketing opportunity. These will showcase your company and logo in news releases, e-mail marketing, event web site, program ad and event recognition and signage. Sponsorships range from $250 for a Small Business Sponsor to $5,000 for Gold Sponsor status.

PRESENTING Sponsor ($10,000) – Alliance for Sustainable Energy, manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

GOLD Sponsor ($5,000) – One Available
Priority Dinner seating for two and four additional tickets to Awards Dinner
Purchase additional tickets at Sponsor discount rate
Introduce Keynote Speaker James Balog
Recognition at event from CO-LABS Chair as Awards Dinner GOLD Sponsor
Banner Display in Dining Room and Display Table in Foyer
GOLD Sponsor acknowledgement and logo on CO-LABS website and promotional materials
Use of Awards Logo for corporate publications and programs
“Sponsor” identification on Name Badges

SILVER Sponsor ($2,500) – XCEL Energy, RASEI (two more available)
Priority Dinner Seating for two
2 additional tickets to Awards Dinner
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Recognition at event from CO-LABS Chair as SILVER Sponsor
Banner Display in Dining Room
SILVER Sponsor acknowledgement and logo on CO-LABS website and promotional materials
“Sponsor” identification on Name Badges

BRONZE Sponsor ($1,000) – Colorado State University, University of Colorado, UCAR, Governor’s Energy Office, Elevations Credit Union, Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, Boulder Economic Council, Jefferson Economic Council, City of Boulder --SOLD OUT--

Supporting Sponsor ($500) - Town of Superior, National Wildlife Research Center, Denver Marriott West (more available)
Two tickets to Awards Dinner
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Sponsor Acknowledgement and logo on CO-LABS website
“Sponsor” identification on Name Badges

Small-Business Sponsor ($250)
One ticket to Dinner
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Sponsor Acknowledgement on CO-LABS website

Contact Beth Powell at beth@albatrai.com or 303.489.0595 for sponsor benefit information.

CO-LABS Governor’s Award for High Impact Research Reception and Dinner

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY JAMES BALOG,
DIRECTOR OF THE EXTREME ICE SURVEY 2010: An Earth (and Carbon) Odyssey - a report from the director of the Extreme Ice Survey

For nearly 30 years, James Balog has consistently broken new ground in the art of photographing nature. His work grows out of a lifelong passion for the environment as an artist, scientist, explorer, and adventurer. A former mountain guide with a graduate degree in geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar ice caps. He was recently honored as recipient of the Heinz Award, recognizing outstanding individuals for their contributions in the areas of: Arts and Humanities, the Environment, the Human Condition, Public Policy, and Technology, the Economy and Employment.

James is the author of Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate: A Progress Report, released by National Geographic Books in March 2009. He is also the author of six other books: Tree: A New Vision of the American Forest and Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, which were hailed as major breakthroughs in nature photography. His images are regularly published in The New Yorker, Life, American Photo, Vanity Fair, Sierra, Audubon, and Outside, and he is a contributing editor for National Geographic Adventure. He is the first photographer ever commissioned to create a series of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. Awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence and the premier awards for both nature and science photography at World Press Photo in Amsterdam, Balog's photos have been exhibited at more than a hundred museums and galleries from Paris to Los Angeles. The documentary film A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn explores his thoughts about art, nature, and perception.

James lives on a Rocky Mountain ridgetop high above Boulder, CO, with his wife, Suzanne, and daughters Simone and Emily.

"Each new series by James Balog represents a quantum leap in creativity, which takes us deeper into the ultimate mystery of humanity's relationship to the natural world. He is a visionary and his works are like sacred objects."
—James Nachtwey, TIME magazine photographer

WHAT is the Extreme Ice Survey?

The Extreme Ice Survey is the most wide-ranging glacier study ever conducted using ground-based, real-time photography. EIS uses time-lapse photography, conventional photography, and video to document the rapid changes now occurring on the Earth's glacial ice. The EIS team has installed 38 time-lapse cameras at 22 sites in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, and Nepal. EIS supplements this ongoing record with annual repeat photography in Iceland, British Columbia, the Alps, and Bolivia.

VISIT THE EIS WEB SITE www.extremeicesurvey.org