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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…
Stanislav Kutuzov and his colleagues recently published “Geochemical characterization of millions of individual atmospheric particles entrapped in Antarctic ice across the last glacial…
The Ohio State University Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, Senior Research Scientist Lonnie Thompson recently returned from a three-week intensive trip to Peru, where he…
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…
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…
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 …
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 world…
A recent study published in Nature Communications, by Danielle E. Schimmenti in the Department geology and geophysics at Texas A&M University, along with Professor Franco Marcantonio, Dr…
A new study published in Scientific Data analyzed lead from the third pole ice core samples from the Puruogangri ice cap in central Tibet and the Dasuopu glacier in the central Himalayas…