Plot

Be part of science and adventure together and follow a young paleo-climatologist from the United Kingdom, Dr. Gina Moseley, on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth's climate in the most unlikely of places: caves.

Ancient Caves brings science and adventure together as it follows a young paleoclimatologist from the United Kingdom, Dr. Gina Moseley, on a mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth's climate in the most unlikely of places: caves. Moseley and her team of cave explorers from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Minnesota, travel the world exploring vast underground worlds in search of stalagmite samples - geologic "fingerprints" - that reveal clues about the planet's climate history over the last 500,000 years. Their quest leads them to some of the world's most remote caves, both above and below the water, in France, Iceland, the Bahamas, the U.S. and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where they study how rapidly Earth's climate can change, and how it has affected human civilization. Together, they go where very few humans will ever go, revealing the incredible lengths scientists will go to study the unknown. During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has experienced great fluctuations between warm and cold periods. Ice ages have caused giant glaciers to cover much of the Earth, only to recede, and then come back again. Only the giant screen can deliver the ultimate experience and adventure of exploring ancient caves around the world to uncover the intriguing history of our planet.

Ancient Caves is an Oceanic Research Group Films production produced with support from the Giant Dome Theater Consortium and presented by MacGillivray Freeman Films. Image capture is with a 15/70 film camera and a RED 8k digital camera specifically formatted for the giant screen and dome screens worldwide.