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Polar Weather and Climate Week June 4-8
The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center will host event COLUMBUS, Ohio—Columbus will be the host city for one of this year’s most important gatherings of polar atmospheric…
CubeRRT approved for launch
Ohio State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair, BPCRC member, and Professor, Joel Johnson, leads the development of NASA’s CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference…
Lonnie Thompson and Emilie Beaudon Receive NSF Rapid Grant to Study Impact of El Niño on Quelccaya Ice Cap
The chemical and physical fingerprints of past El Niño events are preserved in ice cores from Andean glaciers, particularly the Quelccaya ice cap, and offer the potential to quantify past regional…
Polar Community Mourns the Loss of John Splettstoesser
John Splettstoesser of Waconia, Minnesota passed away Monday January 25, 2016 at his home. John was 82. There will be a Memorial Service Friday February 5, 2016 at 11:00 am at the Waconia…
Eastern Snow Conference at the Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center
The 73rd Eastern Snow Conference will be taking place right here in Columbus, Ohio, at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. The call for papers is now available. See the Eastern Snow…
Pete Anderson Honored by the American Polar Society
Peter J. Anderson, former Assistant Director of the Institute of Polar Studies (now the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center), was awarded an Honorary Membership in the American Polar Society at…
2016 Byrd Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Announced
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) of The Ohio State University annouced the 2016 Byrd Fellowship Program for Postdoctoral Researchers on January 5, 2016. This program was…
Collaborative Venture Results in Look at Climate Changes and Impacts in Columbus, Ohio
A collaborative venture of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, City of Columbus, and GLISA has resulted in a two-page summary for Columbus, Ohio of climate change impacts already being felt…
New Resource for Teaching Hydrology in High School & Middle School
As part of a project funded via the NSF Geoscience and Education, we worked with Jason Cervenec (BPCRC outreach coordinator) and Steven Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), and with Howard Greene …