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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…

Elevation model of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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…

Tent on a mountain glacier with footprints in the snow

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…

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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

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); SPL is directed…

ISAES 2015

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…

Team of Scientists Assembling Equipment on a Sled

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…

The north dome of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru in 2003

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 Bolivia…

BPCRC's Aaron Wilson during television interview

BPCRC Researchers are Featured During Local Coverage of NASA and NOAA Announcement

NASA and NOAA made a joint announcement on Friday that 2014 was Earth's hottest year in recorded history. The eastern U.S. was the only largely inhabited part of the planet that experienced colder…