From 23rd December 2023 to 1st April 2024, the "Ice Memory" exhibition, a project supported by UNESCO, will be on display at the exhibition centre Lagazuoi EXPO Dolomiti, in the Lagazuoi cable car top station at an altitude of 2,732 metres. It’s a narrative that traces its roots to the distant past and challenges us to speculate about the future.
Global warming is threatening glaciers, which contain irreplaceable climatic information about the history of the climate and the environment. A legacy that on the one hand allows us to explore the near and distant past of our planet and on the other to increase our ability to predict the future consequences of climate change, which will guide us in our decisions. That is why the "Ice Memory" project was launched in 2015, involving several international teams, including the Italian team led by Carlo Barbante, Director of the Institute of Polar Sciences at the CNR and Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
In the Alps and other places in the world, scientists take ice core samples, cylinders with a diameter of 10 centimetres, which are as deep as the glaciers. Thanks to these samples, it is possible to track natural climate fluctuations before industrial emissions and greenhouse gases accelerate the rise in global temperatures. Analysing the drill cores makes it possible to understand how the Earth reacts to these phenomena, and this information is of essential importance when it is necessary to decide what measures are to be taken to limit the damage caused by climate change. In the Alps and other places in the world, scientists take ice core samples, cylinders with a diameter of 10 centimetres, which are as deep as the glaciers. Thanks to these samples, it is possible to track natural climate fluctuations before industrial emissions and greenhouse gases accelerate the rise in global temperatures. These ice samples will then be brought to a remote area in Antarctica and stored on a long-term basis in the secure cold of an ice cave. Thus, the researchers will establish a glacial archive so that in the future researchers can conduct their research programmes on preserved ice cores with the new techniques and processes they will have developed.
Exhibition display
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Date: From 23rd December 2023 to 7th April 2024
Time: from 9 a.m. to 4.40 p.m. (last uphill run of the cable car)
Venue: Lagazuoi Expo Dolomiti - Mount Lagazuoi
Phone number: +39 0436 - 5921
Website: https://lagazuoi.it/
