Jeff Orlowski

Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, Orlowski-Yang attended Stuyvesant High School where he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Spectator.

[citation needed] In his senior year at Stanford, he joined environmental photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a time-lapse photography project monitoring glacier retreat around the world.

[citation needed] The feature-length documentary received international acclaim, screening on all seven continents and capturing more than 40 awards from film festivals around the world.

[3][citation needed] In January 2016, Orlowski-Yang received the inaugural Sundance Institute | Discovery Impact Fellowship for environmental filmmaking.

[citation needed] Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary chronicling environmental photographer James Balog's quest to capture images, through the Extreme Ice Survey, a long-term photography project monitoring 24 of the world's glaciers through 43 time-lapse cameras, that will help tell the story of the changes in Earth's climate brought on by global warming.