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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.
- Jeopardized by the ice melting and global warming
- Along with the valuable information they contain by sampling
- A dedicated sanctuary that will allow this raw material to be preserved in the best conditions
- To pass on this heritage of ice cores to future generations
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![[Ice Memory Workshops] The concepts of ‘UNESCO World Heritage’ and ‘Common Heritage of Mankind’: what's the point?](/medias/photo/icr5670_1699436030069-jpg)
[Ice Memory Workshops] The concepts of ‘UNESCO World Heritage’ and ‘Common Heritage of Mankind’: what's the point?
A new serie of 8 workshops and a collaborative international chair to join! What is scientific heritage? How is the ownership of a scientific heritage established?
![[Antarctica] Storage of the Ice Memory heritage ice cores approved by ATCM](/medias/photo/1720702245392_1720775422623-jpg)
[Antarctica] Storage of the Ice Memory heritage ice cores approved by ATCM
As the 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) concluded on May 30th, 2024 in Kochi, Kerala (India), a very important milestone has been reached by the Ice Memory Foundation. Indeed, storing heritage ice cores in Antarctica on a long-term basis...
![[New Scientific publication in Nature] Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive](/medias/photo/psi-16032011-2-0106_1706266683552-jpg)
[New Scientific publication in Nature] Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive
Paul Scherrer Institut PSI scientists analyzed two ice cores taken from the Corbassière glacier in Grand Combin. Their results published today in Nature Geoscience ...
7
founders
9
drilling operations
10
countries involved
18,000
years of climate and environmental history from the Andes
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Claude Lorius, French glaciologist and glacier drilling pioneer
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Founders
The Ice Memory Foundation, under the auspices of the UGA Foundation, has been created on Jan 18th, 2021 by 7 founding partners.
