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Now, Lisa recounts her daily life in the polar region in a series of exclusive vlogs - a rare opportunity for the public to go behind the scenes of an exceptional scientific mission, in the heart of the white continent. ![](/storage/files/202301-projectspotlight-beyondepica-web.jpg) Credit©PNRA\_IPEV *The [Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project](https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/featured-projects/beyond-epica-project-studying-past-predict-climate-change_en#:~:text=The%20Beyond%20EPICA%20%E2%80%93%20Oldest%20Ice,retrieving%20ice%20cores%20from%20Antarctica) is an ambitious international effort of 15 participants from 10 countries, aimed at uncovering Earth’s deep climate history by retrieving ice cores from Antarctica.* Forty kilometers from Concordia Station, at the Little Dome C drilling site, around fifteen scientists have been taking turns every year since 2019 on an extraordinary mission: to reconstruct Earth's climate variations over 1.5 million years. Last winter, the team achieved a historic feat by extracting a 2,800-meter-long ice core , 1.2 million years old – a world first. Like true time capsules, the air bubbles trapped in the ice provide a unique testimony to the evolution of the climate and make it possible to anticipate future changes. From between the glaciers, straight to Instragram ------------------------------------------------- ![](/storage/files/lisa-ardoin-carre.jpg) Lisa Ardoin In the middle of this white desert, amid extreme temperatures, millennia-old ice, curious penguins, and a laboratory cooled to -35°C, Lisa Ardoin, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Science's Glaciology Laboratory, worked and filmed her daily life. With a GoPro camera in hand, she captured images of science and life, which she now shares in a series of 10 vlogs published twice a week on her Instagram account. [SEE THE VLOGS AND JOIN THE ADVENTURE](https://www.instagram.com/l_lardoin/) Beyond the lab -------------- This is not Lisa's first project of this type. Very involved in scientific dissemination, Lisa multiplies initiatives to make her work accessible - in other words, to break the overly serious image of research, to transmit her passion and to motivate people to act in the face of the climate challenge. 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