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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…

Berry Lyons

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.…

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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 warming

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

Emily Sambuco

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…

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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…

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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…

The Third Pole

Spring Semester Courses Taught by BPCRC Researchers

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…

Anchorage Arctic DEM

High-Resolution, Three-Dimensional Topographic Maps of Alaska

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…

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Polar Weather and Climate Week June 4-8

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…