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.…
The first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an Eastern Italian…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
