00:00 - Holtedahlfonna glacier
00:14 - What is an ice core?
00:27 - Visit the drilling dome
00:42 - How does the ice drill work?
02:24 - What will be analyzed?
03:12 - Is it possible to find life and microorganisms in the ice?
03:55 - It is urgent to secure these samples (the glaciers are melting)
04:24 - Visit the kitchen and living room tents
04:43 - Visit the sleeping tents
05:18 - Transport to Ny-Ålesund Research Station
05:47 - The freezer container
05:58 - One core to Antarctica to be stored in the Ice Memory Sanctuary
06:10 - Did the ice cores survive the transport?
It’s a wrap! The project got three 75 meter long ice core samples vertically drilled through the Holtedahlfonna glacier, all the way down to the bedrock underneath. ↕️ The Italian, French and Norwegian scientists had to handle several challenges through the project, such as running water (!) inside the glacier. This is how the project collected 300 years of climate history fra the glacier Holtedahlfonna close to Ny-Ålesund Research Station in Svalbard.
Read the full story (in Norwegian): www.npolar.no/nyhet/isprover-i-tide
The scientist we meet in the video are:
• Paleoclimatologist Andrea Spolaor from the CNR Institute of Polar Science @cnr_isp
• Microbiologist Catherine Larose from the French National Centre for Scientific Research @CNRS
• Snow physist Jean-Charles Gallet from the Norwegian Polar Institute
Ice Memory Foundation
Expeditions leaders:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Instituto di Scienze Polari
The expedition is part of the SENTINEL project (The impact of sea ice diSappearance on highEr North aTlantic clImate and atmospheric bromiNe and mErcury cycLes), funded by the Arctic Research Program (PRA) of the Italian Ministry of University and Research. The expedition is led by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr) and involves scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Cnrs), Norwegian Polar Institute, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the University of Perugia. Karpos, Aku, and Polibox are the expedition’s technical sponsors.
Expedition Partners:
Norwegian Polar Institute
CNRS
Universita Ca Foscari Venzia
Unipg
ISAC
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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