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Securing Pamir Ice Memory: Two Deep Cores Recovered at Kon Chukurbashi
An international team under the Swiss Polar Institute's PAMIR Flagship Initiative has completed a five-week, high-altitude drilling campaign on the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan's Pamir…

Study finds Antarctic deep circulation slowed during early deglaciation
A recent study published in Nature Communications finds that Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) overturning circulation slowed rather than strengthened during the early phase of the last deglaciation,…

What do ice cores tells us about climate change?
BBC World Service’s The Climate Question—stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that, spotlights how ice cores from Antarctica to Peru’s Quelccaya…

Southern Indian Ocean Warming Drives Rising Summer Temperatures in East Antarctica’s Interior
A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that summer warming deep inside East Antarctica is being driven by rapid ocean warming thousands of kilometers away in the southern Indian…

College of Arts and Sciences launches BuckAI Observatory
To capitalize on the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI) and The Ohio State University’s focus on becoming a national leader in the field, the College of Arts and Sciences has…

From Research to Action — Making the Case for Peru’s Quelccaya National Park
Lonnie Thompson, Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University, recently spoke with…
Byrd Center Researchers Lead Field Expedition to Study Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap
Researchers led by The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Lonnie Thompson, a Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology research group and a…

The American Society for Microbiology Honors Byrd Center PI Matthew Sullivan with 2026 Environmental Research Award
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced its 2026 Awards and Prize Program honorees. Among the recipients is Matthew Sullivan, professor in the Departments of Microbiology and…

SWOT Satellite Delivers First Global Estimates of River Discharge
A study led by an international team of researchers published in Geophysical Research Letters reports the first global estimates of river discharge, the volume of water flowing past a point per…