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Ice core drilling at night.
September 3, 2020

How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics

Records of human history, preserved for thousands of years

Originally published in The Conversation.

By Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, The Ohio State…

Read Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought
July 22, 2020

Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought

National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected from…

Ice core drilling equipment.
July 15, 2020

A Scientific Record at Risk

"As climate change threatens Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets, climatologists and chemists race to bank ice core samples for the future. By Katherine Bourzak, C&EN Staff."

Dr. Lonnie…

Eruption of Alaska’s Augustine Volcano in 2006. Credit: Cyrus Read, USGS
January 1, 2020

Using Satellites and Supercomputers to Track Arctic Volcanoes

Chunli Dai and her work with the ArcticDEM project was recently featured in Earth & Space Science News (EOS). Read the story at EOS.org.

Dr. Dai's current research includes Quantifying…

Two birds sitting on a branch.
December 30, 2019

Birds And Climate Change

Byrd Center Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator, Dr. Aaron Wilson, discusses Birds and Climate Change on NPR's All Sides with Ann Fisher. Visit wosu.org to listen to the podcast…

Byrd Center Ice Core Freezer
December 6, 2019

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…

Groundwater leading into ocean
June 12, 2019

Mapping groundwater’s influence on the world’s oceans

New study shows high-res views of where groundwater flows to the oceans

By Laura Arenschield

Researchers at The Ohio State University have created high-resolution maps of points around the…

Byrd Center Symposium | From art to zooplankton
March 26, 2019

From art to zooplankton: The effects of climate change are far-reaching

First-ever climate change symposium held at Ohio State

By Laura Arenschield

Climate change’s effects are already widespread, accelerating soil erosion, bleaching coral reefs and prompting…