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Steven Quiring: Leveraging Machine Learning
May 3, 2021

New Project: Leveraging machine learning to provide high resolution soil moisture and evapotranspiration data to support farm-scale decision making

Dr. Steven Quiring, Professor of Geography and Byrd Center Principal Investigator, was recently awarded $500K by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve the accuracy and utility…

Satellites show world's glaciers melting faster than ever
April 28, 2021

Satellites show world's glaciers melting faster than ever

A new study lead by ETH Zurich and the University of Toulouse used satellite data from ArcticDEM and REMA, two projects headed by the Byrd Center's Glacier Dynamics Research Group, to show that …

How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb
April 27, 2021

How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb

Earth’s permafrost stores about 1,600 billion metric tons of carbon — about twice the amount present in the atmosphere. As climate change accelerates permafrost thawing, Byrd Center scientists…

Antarctic Peninsula warming is expected to continue
April 18, 2021

Antarctic Peninsula warming is expected to continue

NBC News talks to Byrd Center Research Scientist, Dr. David Bromwich, about his recent study, which predicts that the Antarctic peninsula will likely experience increases in temperature and…

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