Inauguration of the Ice Memory sanctuary
Date: January 14th, 2026 - January 14th, 2026
Location: Live event from Concordia Station, Antarctica
Thomas F. Stocker
Chair of Ice Memory Foundation - University of Bern, Switzerland
Carlo Barbante
Vice Chair of Ice Memory Foundation - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, CNR, Italy
Jérôme Fort
Vice Chair of Ice Memory Foundation - CNRS, France
Anne-Catherine Ohlmann
Director of Ice Memory Foundation, France
All the founding partners of the Ice Memory Foundation - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and CNR in Italy, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and IRD in France - are delighted to invite you to celebrate the inauguration of the Ice Memory Sanctuary and the storage of the first glacier ice cores to be saved in Antarctica for future generations.
In the presence of H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco,
Honorary President of the Ice Memory Foundation
With the participation of
Lidia Brito,
Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO
Representative of the Italian Ministry of Research
through the Commissione Scientifica Nazionale per l'Antartide (CSNA),
Olivier Poivre d'Arvor,
Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)
Riccardo Scipinotti,
Concordia Station Leader, ENEA (Italy)
and the scientific partners of the Ice Memory initiative
source and more information:
The Ice Memory Foundation will open the first-ever sanctuary of climate archives in Antarctica, storing mountain ice cores for centuries - Ice Memory Foundation
registration: Inauguration of the Ice Memory Sanctuary- Online event