On the Greenland Ice Sheet we experience the awe of ice, its intrinsic beauty. Scenes of the ice sheet, quiet, cold, alone, not a human in sight. We flow down an ice stream and enter the most terrifyingly beautiful, dark hole.

MESSAGES FROM THE CRYOSPHERE is about listening to the ice. If the Greenland Ice Sheet could speak, what would it say? The language is not one we can translate easily, it requires listening deeply.

The Greenland Ice Sheet is 650,000 square miles of ice up to 2 miles thick. When the surface melts, bright blue rivers cut through lines of crevasses, terminating in moulins -fissures that become vertical shafts in the ice - funneling meltwater thousands of feet to the base of the ice. Large lakes of meltwater dot the ice surface. Massive sections of the ice sheet are dark purple from living and biological matter - a darkness seen from space.

Separate yet interconnected people living near or researching the same ice sheet are woven together through the filmmaker-narrator, Kathy Kasic. The scientists each step on their own piece of ice, they wander the same place, but what the specifics of what they hear is different.

MESSAGES FROM THE CRYOSPHERE is a feature-length film telling the story of the key processes contributing to Greenland Ice Sheet melt, the varied global impacts of the amount and location of the ice melt, and unifies the often-disparate work of the climate scientists traversing Greenland to listen to it.