MONICA borned as a multidisciplinary project for the MONitoring of Ice within the CAves financially supported by the University of Trieste  through the FRA 2012 grant (Finanziamento di Ateneo per progetti di ricerca scientifica), and by the Unione Meteorologica del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

 

MONICA has been carried on thanks to the scientific cooperations between The University of Milano Bicocca and the EUROCOLD laboratory facilities, the University of Insubria in Varese, the italian National Research Council (CNR) at ISMAR Trieste.