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Cryospheric Sciences

Ugo Nanni

Ugo Nanni is a glaciologist. He uses seismology to listen to the glaciers, to listen to their cracks, to the melting water, to the crevasses and to their collapse. After three years in Norway and a couple of years wandering between art, science and politics he is now established in Grenoble (France) where he investigates glacial and paraglacial floods in poorly instrumented areas. Drawing a line between his research and his life, between the glacier and the society, is not what defines Ugo, and this is why he shares the whispers of the glaciers, the voices of those who are not heard.

Glacier and humans dialogue, between art and science.

May 15, 2026
against a blue, muted sky a saxophone layer in a beanie plays a song
Torben Snekkestad playing his saxophone in the Tellbreen icecave. Svalbard, March 2025. Credits E. Le Cornec and C. Reymond. CC BY-NC-ND.

At the edge of the world, a voice tries to make itself heard, a whisper slipping between the threads of an unstable reality. In the remote lands of Svalbard, a few hundred miles from the North Pole, lie millennia-old entities, relics of a disappearing species. They murmur in a language that humans today no longer know how to decipher. And yet, it is in this deafness to the voices around them that ...[Read More]