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Ice core drilling at night. the landscape is dark except for a lit up shelter

How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics

Records of human history, preserved for thousands of years

Originally published in The Conversation.

By Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, The…

Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State on 2019 Huascaran expedition (Photo credit: Todd Johnston, Article: Kristen Pope, Yale Climate Connections)

Scientists seek to collect ice core samples before glaciers and ice sheets melt

Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Dr. Richard Alley discuss the urgency and challenges associated with saving perfectly preserved atmospheric records contained within ice cores with Kristen Pope…

Close-up of sedimentary rock showing distinct layers alongside a logo. The logo is a compass rose with a small set of mountains and two pickaxes at its center.

Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought

National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected…

2 researchers use Ice core drilling equipment.

A Scientific Record at Risk

"As climate change threatens Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets, climatologists and chemists race to bank ice core samples for the future. By Katherine Bourzak, C&EN Staff."

Dr. Lonnie…

Dr. Lonnie Thompson’s article in REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine

Dr. Lonnie Thompson and REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine

Dr. Lonnie Thompson was recently photographed for REI's Uncommon Path magazine. In his interview, Lonnie described his time collecting over 7000 meters of ice cores for climate research, spending…

Lonnie Thompson seated with 10 other True Originals

Lonnie Thompson one of the Columbus 'True Originals'

Lonnie G. Thompson, a paleoclimatologist, joins poet and author Hanif Abdurraqib, art and music producers Jack and Zoe Johnstone, and artists Jackie Calderone and Robert Post to be honored by the…

Huascaran

Nature Article on Lonnie Thompson recent Huascaran Expedition

Nature article on Lonnie Thompson recent Huascaran expedition.  04 SEPTEMBER 2019

Daring scientists extract ice from Earth's highest tropical glacier. Researchers race to retrieve ice…
Lanscape photos demonstrating the changes on Quelccaya from 1977 to 2016

Documenting the demise of Quelccaya: The world’s largest tropical ice cap

For over 40 years Byrd Center researchers have observed and documented the changes.

August 23, 2018

From August 14 to Sept 4, 2018, researchers from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center…

Map of the region with an image of an ice core and graph of the project data

Central Tibetan Plateau atmospheric trace metal contamination: A 500-year record from the Puruogangri ice core

Byrd Center Paleoclimatology Research Group members Emilie Beaudon, Paolo Gabrielli, Roxana Sierra-Hernández, and Lonnie Thompson recently published a record of atmospheric trace metal…