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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 warming
The first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an…