Stories Trapped in Ice
Lukasz Larsson Warzecha & Ulrika Larsson
The history of humanity and the history of Earth's climate are written into the ice cores.
Stories Trapped in Ice features portraits of ice cores from the collection of the 'Ice Core Library' at the Niels Bohr Institute, in Copenhagen, Denmark and tells a story of scientific discovery critical for understanding and projecting rising sea levels, the scientists behind it, and an international effort to understand the past and try to predict the future of our climate.
Ice cores contain layers of ice formed from snowfall over thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. These layers serve as a chronological record of past climate conditions, allowing scientists to reconstruct temperature variations, atmospheric composition, and other climate parameters over long timescales.
Since the 1960s, scientists have drilled ice cores from the polar regions.
Between 2015 and 2023, EastGRIP was an ice core drilling camp and an international science station on the Greenland ice sheet, the second-largest ice body in the world after the Antarctic ice cap.
The Ice Core Library at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is considered a national treasure. The storage facility is known for its extensive collection of ice cores extracted from Greenland, Antarctica, and other places.
Stories Trapped in Ice celebrates the often-overlooked effort required to conduct arctic research, while also bringing the inaccessible ice cores to the public domain.
ICE CORES BUFFER ZONE - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 2$1,950
BLUE TUNNEL - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 3$1,200
DRILLING TRENCH - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 4$1,200
East Greenland Ice Core Project CampPOS LL 722 5$1,200
PLEISTOCENE - HOLOCENE | NGRIP | 9,703 BCE | Depth - 1492.45mPOS LL 722 6$1,950
THIN PLATE - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 7$1,200
FRESHLY DRILLED ICE CORE - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 8$1,200
ICE CORE PROCESSING - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 9$1,200
SNOW BLIZZARD - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 10$1,200
NAAZ II | EGRIP | 55,400 BCE | Depth - 2215mPOS LL 722 11$1,950
AIR BUBBLES - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 12$1,200
EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 13$1,200
ARCTIC VOLLEYBALL - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 14$1,200
ECM - PAST VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 15$1,200
EEMIAN INTERGLACIAL | NGRIP | 124,000 BCE | Depth - 3081.65POS LL 722 16$1,950
SEPP KIPFSTUHL PORTRAIT - EASTGRIP, GREENLAND POS LL 722 17$1,200
FIELD LEADER DORTHE DAHL-JENSEN - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 18$1,200
WEATHER PORTS - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 19$1,200
24HRS DAYLIGHT - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 20$1,200
AIR BUBBLES & GREENLAND'S WARM PAST | GRIP | 1023 CE | Depth - 236.9mPOS LL 722 21$1,950
BEYOND A WINDSOCK - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 22$1,200
PRECIOUS ICE CORES HEAD BACK TO EUROPE - EASTGRIP, GREENLANDPOS LL 722 23$1,200
ICE CORE LIBRARY CURATOR PORTRAIT - COPENHAGEN, DENMARKPOS LL 722 24$1,200
ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE - BREMERHAVEN, GERMANYPOS LL 722 25$1,200
'MAMMOTH'S SHIT' OR ASH LAYER | GRIP | 53,400 BCE | Depth - 2431mPOS LL 722 26$1,950
EASTGRIP ICE CORE - BREMERHAVEN, GERMANYPOS LL 722 27$1,200
ICE STRATIGRAPHY - BREMERHAVEN, GERMANYPOS LL 722 28$1,200
MOON BOOTS - BREMERHAVEN, GERMANYPOS LL 722 29$1,200
LUMINESCENCE DATING - ICE CORE LIBRARY COPENHAGEN, DENMARKPOS LL 722 30$1,200
FORESTED GREENLAND | NEEM | 500,000 - 1,500,000 BCE | Depth - 2535mPOS LL 722 31$1,950
GHGs - NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARKPOS LL 722 32$1,200