Glaciers are climate and environmental archives
Jeopardized by the ice melting and global warming
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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.
2025 international year of glacier's preservation
The Ice Memory Foundation provides safeguarding of ice cores
Along with the valuable information they contain by sampling
Precious archives will be stored in Antarctica
A dedicated sanctuary that will allow this raw material to be preserved in the best conditions
Ice Memory implies long term governance
To pass on this heritage of ice cores to future generations
Inauguration of the Sanctuary in Antarctica
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Philanthropists play a key role in safeguarding our glacier archivesThe interview with Anne-Catherine Ohlmann
[LIVE] Replay the moving inauguration ot the Ice Memory Sanctuary
On January 14th, from the heart of Antarctica, the inauguration of the Ice Memory Sanctuary at Concordia Station gathered more than 300 people on live, including over 80 journalists from across the world.
PRESS RELEASE Ice Memory SanctuaryThe Ice Memory Foundation opens the first-ever sanctuary of mountain ice cores in Antarctica, storing these climate archives for centuries
From the Alps to the Antarctic Plateau, precious ice cores carrying the memory of Earth’s past atmosphere are now safely stored at Concordia station in an ice cave at a temperature close to -52°C/-61°F year-round...
PRESS RELEASE - Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 13rd October 2025Final stages of the 2025 Pamir ice coring expedition
Two deep ice cores of 105 m length to reveal the secrets of resistant glaciers in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan - Central Asia.
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Founders
The Ice Memory Foundation, under the aegis of the UGA Foundation, was created on January 18, 2021, and has five founding partners.
