Colle Gnifetti. Photo by Nicole Spaulding In 2013 a joint venture of the University of Maine and Harvard University retrieved a 73-meter (240ft) ice core from Colle Gnifetti in the Swiss Alps.  Chemical analysis of the ice core, at the Climate Change Institute, is producing invaluable new data about climate change and human-climate interactions from read more 2,000 Years of European Climate: First Results from the SoHP Historical Ice Core Project – Spaulding, Mayewski, Kurbatov & Bohleber