Ice Memory Foundation

Our vision

The Ice Memory Foundation aims to collect, save, and manage ice cores from selected glaciers in danger of degradation or disappearance, with a view to preserving the information they contain for decades and centuries to come. Safeguarding these ice cores is key to providing scientific advances: the knowledge on past climate and environment history obtained through the ice cores will continue to guide policy decisions that will ultimately contribute to the well-being of humanity.

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Glaciers are climate and environmental archives
Jeopardized by the ice melting and global warming
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The Ice Memory Foundation provides safeguarding of ice cores
Along with the valuable information they contain by sampling
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Precious archives will be stored in Antarctica
A dedicated sanctuary that will allow this raw material to be preserved in the best conditions
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Ice Memory implies long term governance
To pass on this heritage of ice cores to future generations
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News

New drilling mission at Colle del Lys glacier in the Alps

The Ice Memory successfully extracted from the endangered Colle del Lys glacier in the Alps: 2 ice cores drilled for research and preserved for Heritage.

[One Planet Polar Summit] A call for ice memory preservation

A high level mobilization to safeguard ice memory from endangered glaciers: With the objective to step into action for the cryosphere, the One Planet- Polar Summit - which took place from November 8 to 10 in Paris, on the initiative of French President...

Ice Memory Workshop in China

Ice Memory Foundation was in China over the last week: Jérôme Chappellaz, chairman of Ice Memory and Carlo Barbante, vice chairman of Ice Memory, took part to a workshop in Lanzhou, co-organized by the Ice Memory Foundation and...

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years of climate and environmental history from the Andes