Why drill into a glacier?
As snow builds up and turns into ice, it traps air and tiny traces of the environment around it. Drilling out a long cylinder gives researchers layers they can study to learn about past conditions.
Keep the samples.
Ice Memory collects cores from threatened glaciers and preserves them for future research. Scientists may be able to learn things from those samples in fifty years that today's tools can't tell us. Keeping the ice gives them that chance.
The freezer is Antarctica.
The Ice Memory sanctuary is at Concordia Station. Its snow cave is 35 metres long and sits nine metres below the surface. Temperatures stay around −50°C, using the Antarctic cold to keep the cores frozen.
A reason to care.
Coldcraft commits 1% of net sales to ice research from our first sale. The more we learn about the work, the more we want to help it continue. We will share contribution records here as the programme gets going.
