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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…
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.…
Melissa wins award
Congratulations to Melissa Wrzesien who won best student oral presentation at the International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate for her presentation, “A new estimate of North…
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…
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…
Byrd Center mourns the loss of friend and colleague Gordon Hamilton
The Byrd Center mourns the loss of friend and colleague Gordon Hamilton who died in a tragic accident in Antarctica on Saturday, October 22. Gordon, a Senior Research Associate at the Byrd Polar…