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PBS Newshour Story featuring Dr. Lonnie Thompson, Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Dr. Emilie Beaudon, and the ice core storage facility.

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

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

Mule team transporting gear to mountains in distance

The chemical and physical fingerprints of past El Niño events are preserved in ice cores from Andean glaciers, particularly the Quelccaya ice cap, and offer the potential to quantify past regional…