Team projects

The European project Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice (BE-OI) aims to obtain an ice core covering the last million and a half years. It will help constrain the long-term feedbacks between the carbon cycle and climate.

Most glaciers around the world are losing volume due to global warming. The international project ICE MEMORY aims to document and save ice cores from threatened glaciers on sites of major interest.

The East Antarctic International Ice Sheet Traverse project (EAIIST, 2017-2022) surveyed a large region of the East Antarctic plateau, including areas of megadunes and wind glazed surfaces. Shallow drillings will make it possible to study archiving processes, and the project will also aim to assess the impact of human activities around the Concordia station.

The overall objective of DEEPICE (2021-2024) is to equip a new generation of scientists (1) with a solid experience in climate science related to ice cores, with a particular focus on Antarctica, (2) with a high level of technical and communication expertise and (3) with a large international network of collaborations across academia and the non-academic world. 15 doctoral students have been recruited and trained since 2021 in order to be able to make the best use of the future Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice core.

The MOPGA HOTCLIM project (2020-2025) studies the variability of the climate of high latitudes during past warm periods, which present a polar warming comparable to that projected by 2100 due to specific combinations of orbital forcings and atmospheric CO2 concentration.

The CAPOXI 35-75 project aims to document the oxidative capacity of the Southern Hemisphere along a North-South gradient, extending from Amsterdam Island (37°S) to the Concordia station (75°S) passing by the Dumont d’Urville coastal station (67°S).

In collaboration with LIPhy and IGE technical team,the team is developing very innovative field probes.