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Antarctica’s ice could cross this scary threshold within 40 years
Dr. Ian Howat, Byrd Center Research Scientist and head of the Glacier Dynamics research group, recently spoke to National Geographic about glacial melt in Antarctica.
New Project: Leveraging machine learning to provide high resolution soil moisture and evapotranspiration data to support farm-scale decision making
Dr. Steven Quiring, Professor of Geography and Byrd Center Principal Investigator, was recently awarded $500K by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve the…
Satellites show world's glaciers melting faster than ever
A new study lead by ETH Zurich and the University of Toulouse used satellite data from ArcticDEM and REMA, two projects headed by the Byrd Center's Glacier Dynamics Research Group, to show that …
How microbes in permafrost could trigger a massive carbon bomb
Earth’s permafrost stores about 1,600 billion metric tons of carbon — about twice the amount present in the atmosphere. As climate change accelerates permafrost thawing, Byrd Center scientists like…
Antarctic Peninsula warming is expected to continue
NBC News talks to Byrd Center Research Scientist, Dr. David Bromwich, about his recent study, which predicts that the Antarctic peninsula will likely experience increases in temperature and…
What is a drought?
Byrd Center research scientist Dr. Aaron Wilson unpacks the complexity of droughts, and what to expect for the 2021 Ohio growing season.
Cold Curriculum for a Hot Topic
The Byrd Center's Education and Outreach Group was recently featured in EOS, Science News by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
One giant leap for womankind: Women at the South Pole
In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating the first all-female Antarctic research expedition! In 1969 researchers from the Institute of Polar Studies (now called the Byrd Center) at…
Antarctic peninsula likely to warm over next two decades
A new study by Dr. David Bromwich, Byrd Center researcher and head of the Polar Meteorology Research Group, shows that the Antarctic peninsula will likely experience increases in temperature and…