This project aimed to build capacity for ice-core-related climate-change research in Georgia. 

The specific objective was to extract an historical ice record from the Kazbegi plateau in the Georgian Caucasus region to capture a rapidly diminishing archive of the climate and human cultural history of central Eurasia, addressing United Nations SDG 13 on Climate action, and enabling the first Georgian-led ice-core research on the Kazbegi glaciers.

It was made possible by a partnership between the University of Nottingham, UK; Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; and the Climate Change Institute (CCI), University of Maine, USA. 

The research enabled an evaluation of the impact of recent global warming on the Kazbegi ice records. Preliminary assessment of the ice is currently under way to establish its potential for future ultra-high-resolution, laser-based (LA-ICP-MS) glacio-chemical analysis to research historic climate change.