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Polar Rock Repository and FOD Recycling and Refuse Services Partner to Give Rock Boxes a Second Life
Wooden rock boxes that once traveled across Antarctica are finding new purposes through a collaboration between the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center’s Polar Rock Repository (PRR) and…
Call for Proposals: 2027 Polar Archives Research Award
The call for proposals for the 2026–2027 Polar Archives Research Award is now open! The $6,000 award supports graduate students, faculty and independent scholars from around the…
Aaron Wilson Discusses Ohio’s Climate Future in Crain’s Cleveland Business
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Principal Investigator and State Climatologist of Ohio Aaron Wilson recently contributed to Crain’s Cleveland Business coverage examining…
McKenzie-Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Open for Applications
Undergraduate students working for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, are encouraged to apply for research support from the G. McKenzie & H. Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. The…
Kara Lamantia confirms that tropical regions are a historic source of methane
Kara Lamantia and her colleagues recently published research in Nature using ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the first global record of historical tropical methane. The…
Austin Weber et al. investigate the influence of mineral dust on glacial albedo in the tropical Andes
Austin Weber and his colleagues recently published “On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)” in Journal of Geophysical…
Job Opening: Polar Archivist
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The Case for Quelccaya
A new white paper by Byrd Center paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson outlines the case for creating a National Park in Peru's Quelccaya region, home to the world's largest tropical ice cap. The…
Prof. Melisa Diaz Awarded the 2026 F.W. Clarke Award
Professor and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Principal Investigator Melisa Diaz was recently honored with the F.W. Clarke Award for her pioneering research investigating the geochemical…