Once inside the vault, the samples will be stored at -18C (0F). "The storm brought two feet of water and mud into the bank, and that is the last thing you want in a seed bank." "One example happened in September when a typhoon ripped through the Philippines and destroyed its seed bank," Dr Fowler recalled. The Global Music Vault is spearheaded by Oslo-based Elire Management Group, which claims the building should last for at least 1,000 years buried beneath 1,000-feet of snow on the Svalbard archipelago. The Arctic vault will act as a back-up store for a global network of seed banks financially supported by the trust.ĭr Fowler said that a proportion of the seeds housed at these banks would be deposited at Svalbard, which will act as a "living Fort Knox".Īlthough the vault was designed to protect the specimens from catastrophic events, he added that it could also be used to replenish national seed banks. A 'Doomsday vault' for recorded music is being constructed on an arctic island between the North Pole and Norway. "We also modelled climate change in a drastic form 200 years into future, which included the melting of ice sheets at the North and South Poles, and Greenland, to make sure that this site was above the resulting water level."īy building the vault deep inside the mountain, the surrounding permafrost would continue to provide natural refrigeration if the mechanical system failed, explained Dr Fowler. The storage facility is carved into solid rock some 390 feet inside the mountain, where the seeds are kept at a temperature of -18C (-0.4F), enough to significantly delay them from aging. The Doomsday Seed Vault has been built deep inside Arctic mountains. The Doomsday Vault, managed by the Nordic Genetic Resource Center, first opened in 2008. Buried deep Inside a mountain, the Vault hopes to ensure survival of organic matter and archived data. The purpose of the Vault is to store duplicates (backups) of seed samples from the world’s crop collections.
We looked at radiation levels inside the mountain, and we looked at the area's geological structure," he told BBC News. On 1 January 2008 the Nordic Gene Bank was integrated with NordGen. Often referred to as the doomsday vault, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores copies of the world’s crop seeds. For most of human history, about 10,000 years ago, we began to domesticate plants as a way to make our food supply more accessible. Norway Doomsday Backstory ARWA00000000.jpg. Publish On 01, Aug 2019 Norway’s Doomsday Vault Backup important data and keep it safe forever. In the first withdrawal from a doomsday seed vault in the Arctic, thousands of seeds that were originally kept in war-stricken Syria have been safely delivered to Morocco and Lebanon, officials said Monday. Dr Fowler said Svalbard, 1,000km (621 miles) north of mainland Norway, was chosen as the location for the vault because it was very remote and it also offered the level of stability required for the long-term project. Norway’s Doomsday Vault Backup important data and keep it safe forever. 18, 2015, a view of the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
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