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CryoRad from sea ice to ocean salinity, a new microwave approach could boost polar observations
Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author. Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, et al. Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar Regions The work of…
Bacteria resisting viral infection can still sink carbon to ocean floor
Study explores ecological effects of phage resistance in marine setting Marine bacteria are key to determining whether carbon is recycled near the ocean surface or transported to deeper waters, but…
Steven Quiring featured on the Midwest Moxie podcast
Midwest Moxie's executive producer is Audrey Nowakowski. Steven Quiring knew his technology solved a problem for utilities. And based on projects he’d been involved in, he knew they’d pay for it. But…
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 Ice…
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 Ocean…
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…
Precession Drove Opposing Monsoon Patterns Over Millennia in Asia and Australia, Study Finds
A new international study has uncovered how subtle changes in Earth's orbit triggered opposing rainfall patterns between Asia and Australia over the past 300,000 years. The research, published in npj…
New High-Resolution Method Reveals Accelerated Ice Loss at Greenland's Margins
A new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters introduces a powerful technique to measure ice mass loss in Greenland with unprecedented spatial detail, particularly along the ice sheet…
What is 'corn sweat' and how does it exacerbate heat waves?
Principal Investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and State Climatologist of Ohio, Aaron Wilson, shared with ABC News how mid-summer marks the peak of corn’s maturity, when…