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Researchers link El Niño to accelerated ice loss in tropics

Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found. 

A phenomenon that typically…

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The Role of the European Space Agency's CryoSat in Decoding Thwaites Glacier's Retreat

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in West Antarctica, as detailed in the study "Basal channels,…

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Climate Change Intensifies Risk of Devastating Floods in Sikkim Himalaya

A recent study published in the journal Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, led by the Byrd Center's Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Kaushik highlights the increasing threat of…

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Unveiling the Hidden Influence of Viruses on Methane Cycling and Climate Change

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by Byrd Center's ZhiPing Zhong has unveiled how viruses that infect microbes can…

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AI Mapping Reveals Potential Subsurface Natural Hydrogen Worldwide

Byrd Center researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a deep-learning model to identify surface features associated with subsurface reservoirs of naturally occurring free hydrogen.…

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AGU23: WIDE. OPEN. SCIENCE.

Annually, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting brings together over 25,000 participants from more than 100 countries, fostering a global platform for sharing research and networking. This…

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Assessing the Thickness of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Concurrent Airborne Altimetry and Ice Measurements Reveal Thinner Profiles Than Expected

Recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology is the first large-scale study of its kind focusing on the accuracy of estimating the thickness and mass loss of Antarctic ice…

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Congratulations Allison!

 

Allison Chartrand successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation earlier this month. The title of her dissertation was The Evolution and Impact of Kilometer-scale Melt…

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Measuring the Massive Melt

Tom Chudley, Leverhulme research fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and former research associate at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at…