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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."

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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…

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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…

Landscape covered slightly on snow

Huascaran 2

Possibly Format as Different Media Push: Project announcement: Lonnie Thompson's "A 20,000 Year Ice Core-Derived Record of Paleoclimate and Environmental Variability in the Tropical Andes: Nevado…

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Huascaran 1

POSSIBLY FORMAT AS DIFFERENT MEDIA PUSH: Project announcement: Lonnie Thompson's "A 20,000 Year Ice Core-Derived Record of Paleoclimate and Environmental Variability in the Tropical Andes: Nevado…