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Refrigeration units are located outside and are very outdated.

OSU Lantern - Polar Predicament: Byrd Freezers in need of renovation

The freezers that have been active within the Byrd Center for over 30 years are beginning to show their age and fall into disrepair.

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Glacier Ice Samples Act as Records of Climate Change’s Impact on Earth

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

 

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…

Researchers in winter gear are delivered supplies on snow via helicopter

Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away

The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found.

The glaciers…

Byrd Center Ice Core Freezer

Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio

Doppler10 Meteorologist Drew Anderson visited the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to "Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio."

View the full story at 10tv…

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…

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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…

Collecting Data on Western Greenland Ice Sheet

Paper Looks at Changes in the Structure of the Western Greenland Ice Sheet Caused by Recent Atmospheric Warming

BPCRC researchers Santiago de la Peña, Ian Howat, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson recently authored a paper describing changes in the structure of the western Greenland Ice Sheet caused by atmospheric…