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
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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 report in the June 15 issue of the journal Nature Communications.
Ohio State’s Women & Philanthropy Gives $36,000 to Byrd Center Outreach for Science on a Sphere System
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Outreach Program received a check for $36,000 to purchase a Science on a Sphere system during the Women & Philanthropy’s annual awards dinner.
Capacity Building Workshop in Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Bryan Mark, together with former BPCRC postdoctoral researcher Alfonso Fernandez, and colleagues from the Moritz Lab and from the University of Maroua, Cameroon, held a workshop in Ngaoundere, as part of the Capacity Building of stakeholders, stud
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. Scholar Grant by the U.S. Department of State.
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 Alps glacier, only 37 km from where the famous Tyrolean Iceman was discovered
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, and Climate and Physical Geography.