Sea Beyond supports “Follow the Ice – The memory of Glaciers”
Milan, 21st March 2025 – On the World Day for Glaciers, the Prada Group and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) are delighted to announce their support, as part of SEA BEYOND, for “Follow the Ice – The memory of Glaciers”, a project by the Ca’ Foscari University Foundation to raise awareness of the importance of glaciers as a natural, landscape, cultural and scientific resource and carry out research activities at the same time.
The collaboration involves the development of teaching resources for the fourth cycle of the SEA BEYOND educational module, developed for secondary schools all over the world, starting next September. Many scientific themes will be addressed through written content, as well as interactive activities and live webinars with scientists on topics ranging from the life stages of glaciers to the journey of water from snow-covered mountains to the ocean, and the important role that ice plays in the conservation of climate information over time.
The educational aspect goes alongside the scientific one: the project foresees three research missions in representative, iconic areas of mountain glacial environments. The expeditions, coordinated by the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Isp) and by the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, will include the Corbassière Glacier in the Grand Combin massif (European Alps), the Baltoro Glacier (Karakoram, Pakistan) and the Newtontoppen Glacier (Svalbard Islands, Norway), with the common goal of extracting deep ice cores. The samples will then be analyzed at the Ca’ Foscari and Cnr-Isp laboratories. One core for each site will be placed at the disposal of the Ice Memory Foundation, with the goal of conserving it in Antarctica to allow the scientific community of the future to study climate developments with the latest technologies.
