La lezione dai glaciologi della Bicocca, a 50° sotto zero: 'In 800mila anni mai così tanti gas serra''I ghiacciai alpini sono quelli che si sono ritirati di più negli ultimi 50 anni. Ma il Planpincieux è solo la punta dell'iceberg'. Situato a...

Glaciologi al lavoro!

Intervista a Valter Maggi sui recenti drastici ritiri dei ghiacci della Valle d'Aosta e sull'importanza strategica dei ghiaccia nella conservazione delle informazioni sul clima e sull'ambiente.

Valter Maggi's interview on the recent strong retry of the Valle d'Aosta glaciers, and on the strategic importance of the glaciers as archive of climatic and environmental information.

Pian di Neve, the accumulation area of the Adamello Glacier (3200 m asl).

Pian di Neve, la zona di accumulo del Ghiaccciaio dell'Adamello a 3200 m di quota.

ADA270

The ice core project of the deepest Italian glacier

Progetto di perforazione del ghiacciaio più profondo d'Italia

The Adamello Glacier represent the largext Iytalian glacier with around 16 km², at list 2342 soccer firlds. On the border between Lombardy Region and Trento Province, represent also the most deeper glacier of Italy, reaching the 270 m of ice thickness.

Il ghiacciaio dell’Adamello è tuttora il più esteso e profondo ghiacciaio d’Italia con i suoi circa 16 km², pari alla dimensione di 2342 campi da calcio. Situato a cavallo tra la Lombardia ed il Trentino, rappresenta la siztesa glaciale più grande del nopstro Paese. Ma oltre ad essere il più esteso, è anche il più profondo, con uno spessore nella sia zona di accumulo che raggiunge i 270 m.

Condensed Matter Researches in Cryospheric Science

Augusto Marcelli, Valter Maggi and Cunde Xiao (Eds.)

Pages: 144

Published: September 2019

ISBN 978-3-03921-323-8 (Pbk); ISBN 978-3-03921-324-5 (PDF)

https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-324-5 (registering DOI)

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1550

These results presented in this book highlights of some of the most recent advances in cryospheric studies, especially in relation to mineral dust and aerosols in the atmosphere. They evidence the complexity of chemical–physical processes involving solid compounds occurring in glacier, snow, and permafrost environments, covering different aspects such as spatial and temporal trends, as well as the impact of the mineral and non-mineral particles. These studies also demonstrate the need for collaborative interdisciplinary and transnational efforts to better understand the challenges of the present climatic and environmental research studies on Earth, but also out of the Earth’s system. The results show that recent advances in measurement techniques and source apportionment are powerful and sophisticated tools that may provide novel high-quality scientific information but represent only the first challenging step.

News

Meet Me Tonight

The 25th and 26th Seprember 2015, during the Meet ME Tonight Exposition, at Giardini Indro Montanelli in Milano the EurocCold Lab, with the Physics Dept. of University of Milano, present a simulation of ice core field camp with tents, ice core drilling system, polar cloathing and a real ice core to see. Presentation for schools and people visitng the stand, and simulationnopf drilling activities in Antarctica and polar areas.

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18/9/2019 New book on Condensed Matter Researches in Cryospheric Science.

25 and 26/9/2015 MeetMeTonight

3 and 4/9/2015 - PAGES Antarctica 2k Meeting in Venice

31/5/2015 - Ice core Science movie at Cannes Film Festival

26/5/2015 - New Talos Dome mineral dust measurement at Diamond Light Source (UK).

PAGES Antarctica 2k Meeting

The 2015 Antarctica2k working group meeting, organized by the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will take place on 3-4 September 2015 at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. During the 2 days meeting, a almost complete knowledgement abaout the last 2000 years of Antarctica (marine and continental) climate will be explorated. All participants at the workshop will be expected to contribute to the Antarctica2k objectives by sharing and compiling data, by providing synthesis products or by comparing model simulations with available data.

Ice Core Science Movie at Cannes Film Festival

The film maker Luc Jacquet (who received the Academy award in 2006 for "March of the Penguins") has produced a new film called "Ice and the sky" (http://iceandsky.com/), which will be released in Fall 2015 in our country, and probably at about the same time internationally. It is about the story of Claude Lorius, the founder of ice core science in France. It relates his work which started with the International Geophysical Year in 1957/58 when he wintered-over with two colleagues at Charcot station, a small hut below the snow 400 km inland Adelie land. And it runs until the landmark publication of 3 joint articles in Nature on October 1987, showing for the first time the tight link between carbon dioxide and climate in the course of a glacial-interglacial cycle, out of the famous Russian Vostok core. The film is built on a permanent balance between archive films showing Claude Lorius at work since 1956, and recent shootings of our now-83-year old colleague silently watching current climate warming impacts on the planet. The wish of Luc Jacquet is to create emotion of a public which does not usually care about climate change, through its discovery with this film of how our science developed and came to important conclusions for our future. The film also highlights the very strong international dimension of ice core science, with for instance the landmark event of December 1984 when US aircrafts brought French scientists to a Soviet station, while the Cold War was still going on... You can watch the trailer here : http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/watch-official-trailer-for-luc-jacquets-new-doc-ice-and-the-sky/ Last Sunday was a special day for us and for the ice core community. Indeed the organizers of the Cannes film festival selected "Ice and the sky" to be the unique film being screened during the closure ceremony of the festival. The decision was quite political. A way to show that the movie community is concerned and that it wants to play a role with respect to the COP-21 which will take place in Paris on December 2015. Some critics were pretty good following the screening, like here for instance : http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ice-sky-la-glace-le-797778

From right to left : Nartciss Barkov who started the deep drilling at Vostok in 1969 (we celebrated his 90th birthday on that day), Claude Lorius, Vladimir Kotlyakov (who wintered-over at Mirny in 57/58 when Lorius was at Charcot) and our beloved IPICS SC member Volodia Lipenkov

Mineral Dust Measurements at Diamond Light Source (UK)

From 21st to 26th of May, 2015, a group o 6 scientst and students meet an Diamond Light Source (UK) for XANES (X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure) measurements on one of the large Synchrotron facility of Europpe. A collaboration between EuroCold Lab, Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Department of Regional Affairs (Italian Ministry Council) and Diamond Light Source measure more than 30 mineral dust samples from Talos Dome ice core, spanning ages from 2.000 to 150.000 years, and samples from some South America possible dust source areas. The very low quantities of dust collected from ice core samples (nanograms to femptograms) need a very high energy instrumentations and special setting-up that only these kind of accelerator can provide. All the samples are prepared in the EuroCold Lab where high clean facilityes can be used for reduce the risk of contamination of these very sensible samples. Moreover, only personnel with high specialization can provide important capacities for work on this kind of science.

Sample preparation on the B18 beam line at Diamond Light Source (UK)

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