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Lonnie Thompson and colleagues recently published new research in Science Advances revealing that ice preserved within the Guliya Ice Cap in northwestern Tibet dates back more than 100…
Kara Lamantia and her colleagues recently published research in Nature using ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the first global record of historical tropical methane. The…
Austin Weber and his colleagues recently published “On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)” in Journal of Geophysical…
The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES) Professor and Interim Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Michael Durand and his team have been published in…
Marta Jarzyna, associate professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and her colleagues have…
Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author.
Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others.
Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar…
A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…
A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…
A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to one…
A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its…
A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…
In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and…
Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the interaction between ice-shelf channels and the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier…
Researchers from The Ohio State University, led by former Byrd Center member Kyungmin Sung, now a research fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, examined how droughts and rainfall extremes…
Researchers at The Ohio State University have made a significant discovery in understanding how viruses preserved in glacial ice have adapted to Earth's climatic changes. The study, led by Byrd…
Congratulations to Adam Tjoelker
In mid-June, Adam Tjoelker presented his research at the 12th International Conference on Permafrost in Yukon, where he earned second place for…
In a recent study published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, researchers investigated how iron can inhibit the transfer of phosphorus, a…
A study published in Nature Communications utilized advanced sequencing technologies, combining short and long-read sequencing, to examine the population of viruses that infect and…
The 29th Polar Libraries Colloquy took place earlier this month, from June 9-14, 2024, in Tromsø, Norway. Participants, including Byrd Center members, Polar Archivist Laura Kissel…
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a vital role in transporting climate change signals across the global ocean. A team of international researchers collaborated on a…
The High Mountain Asia range is often described as the water towers of Central Asia due to its crucial role in providing water resources. Its glaciers, vital for sustaining human populations and…
Flubber, a versatile material used extensively in science education, has historically incorporated borax in its composition. Borax poses certain health risks including skin, digestive, and…
In a recent international collaboration, researchers at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center analyzed ice samples from high tropical mountains to gain a unique…
In a comprehensive study spanning 300 years (1700-2005) of an ice core from Svalbard in the European high Arctic, researchers examined the sources and characteristics of black carbon (BC)…
Annually, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting brings together over 25,000 participants from more than 100 countries, fostering a global platform for sharing research and networking. This…
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) report was released today and presents a stark reality of human-caused climate change's escalating impact across the United States. The report…
A team of researchers led by the University of Washington (UW) has discovered that the amount of snow on the ground at the end of December can effectively predict total seasonal snowfall in…
Members from The Ohio State University's STEAM Factory recently contributed to an academic discourse with their article, “Utilizing Off-Campus Spaces to Engage Third-Space Labor Across the…
Climate change is increasingly contributing to the prevalence of extreme weather phenomena such as severe droughts and floods across Europe. Researchers have expressed concern regarding this trend…
A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres is the first to examine the oxygen stable isotope (δ18O) records of a collection of four ice cores drilled in…
Precise dating of glacial deposits from Byrd Glacier's Lonewolf Nunataks shows that one of the world's largest glaciers thinned rapidly around 8,000 years ago as the Ross Ice Shelf formed, based…
An article in the September 2023 issue of The Physics Teacher, authored by Jason Cervenec, Geddy Davis, Michael T. Gravina, and Daniel Hamilton, shares new features available for Fluid Earth and…
Recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology is the first large-scale study of its kind focusing on the accuracy of estimating the thickness and mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves, which…
In a recent scientific discovery, researchers successfully revived a microscopic roundworm encased in 46,000-year-old Siberian permafrost. Remarkably, the roundworm was so well-preserved…
Recent research published in Global and Planetary Change studied the mass balance variations between glaciers situated in western Tibet and western Tien Shan during the ablation season,…
Jeff Bielicki, associate professor in civil environmental and geodetic engineering and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, co-authored a study published in the…
The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were scanned using…
A recent study, Connecting Youth Using Arctic Mystery-Themed Kits, was published online in the Journal of STEM Outreach. The lead author, Education and Outreach Program…
Earth’s surface water, such as river flow paths and inundated floodplains, evolves spatially over time. Where and how much surface water is present is critical for evaluating droughts, floods, and…
Demián Gómez, Assistant Professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) and Byrd Center researcher at The Ohio State University, recently co-authored a report published in the journal
Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Center Senior Scientist, Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University, co-chair of Third Pole Environment and honorary member at the Institute of Tibetan…
Last month the Smithsonian Magazine featured an article titled "Ten Pioneering Women of Antarctica and the Places Named for Them" in honor of Women's History month. One of the pioneers featured…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, which cited at least 30 papers…
A consensus statement was recently published in Nature warning humanity about climate change from the perspective of microorganisms. Two Byrd Center members, Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan,…
This new lineage - dubbed Cryosericota, ‘cryo’ for cold and ‘sericota’ for its sister phylum, Caldiserica, for which it was initially mistaken - dominated the microbiome of the old, frozen…