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Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program Announces Research Award

The Polar Archives is pleased to announce the Polar Archives Research Award. The 2018 award is $5,000, and may be used to defray travel expenses, living expenses or research costs.

Glacier Environmental Change

Metal pollution and glacier melt in Peru (GlacierHub)

As glaciers continue to rapidly melt in the tropics, scientists and society face new challenges like the increase in trace metal concentration and pollution in the glacier watersheds. GlacierHub…

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BPCRC Award and Scholarship Ceremony

On November 1st, BPCRC honored several scholarship and award winners with a special ceremony in Room 177.

The Garry…

Glacier Environmental Change

Glacier Environmental Change Featured in The New York Times

The New York Times article features the research held by our group

Showing its relevance for society, the NYT recently featured our research on glacier hydrology in Peru in a piece of the World…

One small leap for drones, one giant step for mountain glaciologists

One small leap for drones, one giant step for mountain glaciologists

The high altitude UAV built by Oliver Wigmore was featured recently in a news feature and video by Science, remarking the work of him and Bryan Mark in the high Andes of Peru, during his PhD study…

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John-Morgan Manos Wins Prestigious Awards

John-Morgan Manos is distinguished with two of the most prestigious awards for Undergraduate students.

Already a glacier-rock-star, John-Morgan was awarded in early October with the Garry McKenzie…

Map of the region with an image of an ice core and graph of the project data

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 Lonnie Thompson recently published a record of atmospheric trace metal…

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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…

Byrd Center outreach team receiving the award check

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. Science on…