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Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program Announces Research Award
The Polar Archives is pleased to announce the Polar Archives Research Award. The 2018 award is $5,000, and may be used to defray travel expenses, living expenses or research costs.
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BPCRC Award and Scholarship Ceremony
On November 1st, BPCRC honored several scholarship and award winners with a special ceremony in Room 177…
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…
Widespread Snowmelt in West Antarctica During Unusually Warm Summer
An area of West Antarctica more than twice the size of California partially melted in 2016 when warm winds forced by an especially strong El Niño blew over the continent, a group of researchers…
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 warmingThe first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an Eastern Italian…
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…
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…