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Byrd Center researcher awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant
W. Berry Lyons, director and professor for Ohio State’s School of Earth Sciences and researcher with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, is the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright U.S…
Ancient Alpine Ice, Immobile since the time of the Tyrolean Iceman, Now Moving
A new 7000 years ice core record suggests a high altitude Alpine glacier is now accelerating due to recent atmospheric warming The first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an Eastern Italian Alps…
Undergraduate Emily Sambuco Receives Taaffe Award
Emily Sambuco, an undergraduate student working within the Byrd Center’s Education & Outreach Group, has received the 2016-17 Taaffe Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in Atmospheric Science,…
Researchers trace the origin of a 2015 iceberg to a crack that formed deep beneath the ice
A key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of the continent. The Pine Island Glacier, part of the ice shelf that bounds…
Internal Temperatures of Ice Sheet Measured by Airplane
In September, two Ohio State researchers journeyed north to test technology developed under the UWBRAD (Ultra Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer for Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature…
Spring Semester Courses Taught by BPCRC Researchers
EARTHSC 6750: Paleoclimatology Instructor: Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson Climate change is happening now and is expected to accelerate over the 21st century! Would you like to know more about past changes…
High-Resolution, Three-Dimensional Topographic Maps of Alaska
The first ever high-resolution, three-dimensional topographic maps of Alaska have been released to the public less than a year after the announcement of a White House Arctic initiative in direct…
Polar Weather and Climate Week June 4-8
The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center will host event COLUMBUS, Ohio—Columbus will be the host city for one of this year’s most important gatherings of polar atmospheric…
Lonnie Thompson and Emilie Beaudon Receive NSF Rapid Grant to Study Impact of El Niño on Quelccaya Ice Cap
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…