Home | Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

Please join the Byrd Center for Ice & Aspire on May 22, 2025

Part of the Byrd Center 65th Anniversary Celebration!

Two researchers gathering water samples

Celebrate Earth Day

with the Byrd Center

Promotional image of Professor W. Berry Lyons and a medal with the embossed image of Richard P. Goldthwait.

The Goldthwait Polar Medal Award & Lecture: W. Berry Lyons

Thursday, April 24, 2025, at 3 PM
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

Honey bee, butterflies and lady bud on lavender flowers in panoramic view.

AI for Biodiversity:

Bridging Global Knowledge Gaps

view of Elbrus mount in the morning at sunrise with a dramatic cloudy sky and foggy green highland meadows. Summer mountain landscape. North Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia

Ammonia Emissions:

Historical Insights from Ice-Core Analysis in Southeastern Europe

Aerial of a large river winding in green valley

A Novel Use of AI in Filling the Data Gap

Enhancing GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis

Aerial view of Crevasses in ice

Accelerating Ice Flow and Climate Change:

Catalysts for Rapid Crevasse Expansion in Greenland

People participate in snow activities near a large sandstone rock formation under a clear blue sky.

Empowering Early Career Researchers

in Advanced Earth System Modeling

Ice & Aspire, May 22, 2025, 5:30 PM

Polar Libraries Colloquy

A black and white image of a bearded man with glasses in a winter coat holding a silver cylinder, against a shelf filled with cylinders along the wall.

Upcoming Events

More Events

May 22, 2025

Ice & Aspire

5:30 pm
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Rd.

American flag attached to a pole blowing in the wind

May 26, 2025

Memorial Day - no classes, offices closed

12:00 am
The Ohio State University

Banner for the 2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment workshop, featuring a collage of images including aerial views of landscapes and waterbodies, held on June 2-5 in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Logos of participating organizations such as the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Geoscience Centre, and Natural Resources Canada are displayed.

June 2 - June 6, 2025

2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop

8:00 am
Institute of Ocean Sciences and Pacific Geoscience Centre, located near Sidney, British Columbia, Canada & Virtual

graphic representing Juneteenth, Freedom Day

June 19, 2025

Juneteenth - no classes, offices closed

12:00 am
The Ohio State University

Recent News

More News

Researchers collect an ice sample in a cave in Great Basin National Park.

May 7, 2025

Undergraduate Researchers Receive Funding to Study Microorganisms from Unique Ice Environments

Congratulations to Rylin Lofton and Wyatt Walker, both undergraduate researchers in the Polar Geomicrobiology Group, for being awarded grants to support their research projects exploring the role…

A helicopter parked on a tarmac with a mountain in the background under a clear blue sky.

April 28, 2025

Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to…

A man holding a green-covered notebook walking in a rocky river bed with a little stream flowing behind him and sparse tree covered hills and mountains in the background.

April 28, 2025

Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support

By Fazlul Haq

In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”

…

Researchers ascending a steep, icy section of a mountain and moving equipment, using fixed ropes for safety.

April 23, 2025

Scientists Investigate Climate Model Discrepancies in Tropical Mountain Ice Cores

A new study published in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment highlights a discrepancy in Holocene climate models, particularly over tropical mountains.

The research, led by…