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. Scholar Grant by the U.S. Department of State.
The first Alpine ice cores drilled to bedrock in an Eastern Italian Alps glacier, only 37 km from where the famous Tyrolean Iceman was discovered
Emily Sambuco, an undergraduate student working within the Byrd Center’s Education & Outreach Group, has received the 2016-17 Taaffe Award for Outstanding Undergraduate in Atmospheric Science, and Climate and Physical Geography.
A key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of the continent.
In September, two Ohio State researchers journeyed north to test technology developed under the UWBRAD (Ultra Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer for Ice Sheet Subsurface Temperature Sensing) project.
EARTHSC 6750: Paleoclimatology
Instructor: Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson
The Byrd Center mourns the loss of friend and colleague Gordon Hamilton who died in a tragic accident in Antarctica on Saturday, October 22.
