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NOAA Chief Scientist Discusses Climate and Health at BPCRC
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and American Lung Association hosted a viewing of the live webcast for the Whitehouse Summit on Climate and Health. This Summit brought together…
2015 Byrd Postdoctoral Fellows Announced
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center announces the 2015 Byrd Postdoctoral Fellows Aubrey Hillman and Julie Miller.
Dr. Hillman earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in…
Nepal disaster relief efforts to be aided by BPCRC researchers
BPCRC Glacier Dynamics Research Group members Myoung-Jong Noh and Ian Howat are producing high resolution elevation models for use in the Nepali earthquake relief effort. These data are critical…
Scientists at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center will study past climatic and environmental conditions in the European Alps
A new project, to be conducted at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, has been funded by the Geography and Spatial Science program of the National Science Foundation to study atmospheric…
2015 Toracinta Graduate Fellowship Winner Announced
Congratulations to Melissa Wrzesien for receiving the 2015 Toracinta Graduate Fellowship in Atmospheric Science!
Dr. E. Richard (Rick) Toracinta was a talented research scientist with the…
Layer cake snow stratigraphy
A bunch of us (me, Ben, Jinmei, Melissa, and Rhae Sung) just got back from participating in a field course led by Noah Molotch (UC Boulder). We were hosted by Storm Peak Lab (SPL);…
US Researchers Can Apply for Travel Funds, International Antarctic Earth Science Symposium, Goa, India, July 2015
The NSF Geo-PLR Section for Antarctic Sciences is providing funds to support participation of U.S. scientists in the 12th International Antarctic Earth Science Symposium. Funds are intended…
Ice Sheets: Byrd Polar and Climate Outreach Newsletter – Winter 2015
This newsletter is also available as a PDF that includes images. 20150301V5.pdf
Greetings,
The new year brought a new name to the center – now officially the Byrd Polar and…
BPCRC team finds earliest evidence of large-scale human-produced air pollution in South America
In the 16th century, during its conquest of South America, the Spanish Empire forced countless Incas to work extracting silver from the mountaintop mines of Potosí, in what is now…