Ice core analyzed by the Ice Memory teams, in 2021, at Mount Rose, straddling Switzerland and Italy. Riccardo Selvatico / CNR
A team of European researchers is conducting the eighth mission of the Ice Memory program in Norway, launched in 2016.
Preserving the memory of the past climate for future generations, the objective of the Ice Memory Foundation, takes on its full meaning with the scientific expedition conducted in the Svalbard archipelago, in Norway. This Tuesday, April 4, the team of eight European researchers (Italy, Norway and France), accompanied by a mountain guide and a drilling expert, began taking samples from the Holtedahlfonna glacier, at an altitude of 1,100 metres. Over the next two weeks, they must recover two ice cores about 10 centimeters in diameter, in a layer 125 meters deep to bedrock. A height of ice that has recorded the climate over the last three centuries.
One of the cores will be analyzed in Italy and the other is intended to be archived by the Ice Memory Foundation in Antarctica, at the Franco-Italian Concordia base. In the successive layers of ice that have formed, the trapped air bubbles, the frozen water as well as the various deposits…
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