These will be preserved for posterity, along with cores from other glaciers, in the natural freezer that is Antarctica. “Eventually, these ice cores will be all that is left of the glaciers,” said Jerome Chappellaz of France’s CNRS research institute, a partner in the endeavor dubbed Ice Memory. “The glaciers… hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes,” said the Institute of Research for Development (IRD), another mission member. The Illimani expedition is the second leg of Ice Memory. They have been placed in a deep freeze at a research institute in Grenoble, at the foot of the Alps, to eventually be moved to the French-Italian Antarctic research base Concordia.

Source: Manila Times March 19, 2017 17:15 UTC