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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 warming The first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an Eastern Italian Alps…
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 bounds…
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 past changes…
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 and…
Job Posting: Systems Manager
The Systems Manager is primarily responsible for the development and maintenance of the BPCRC websites, web servers, and database servers, including the development of any research project web pages,…
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…