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Thompsons receive the Benjamin Franklin Medal
BPRC's Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson made history by digging into Earth's distant past to illuminate future climate change. Now they've received one of the oldest and most prestigious science awards in the world: the Benjamin Franklin Medal.
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The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) at The Ohio State University is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research. Our research programs are conducted throughout the world. The Center is named in honor of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, America's most famous polar explorer. There are ten research groups at BPRC, along with a Library, Archival Program, the US Polar Rock Repository, and a team of support staff. Research at the Center focuses on the role of cold regions in the Earth's overall climate system, and encompasses geological sciences, geochemistry, glaciology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, remote sensing, ocean dynamics, and the history of polar exploration. In addition, BPRC maintains the Byrd Post Doctoral Fellowship Program, provides research opportunities and support for a number of graduate and undergraduate students, offers seminars and lectures on a frequent basis, and maintains a public Education Outreach program.
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Ice Cores: Unlocking Past Climates
WOSU Public Media developed a set of learning modules with associated videos and curricular resources designed to explain how ice cores allow scientists to study past climate. BPRC's Educational Coordinator, Julie Codispoti, hosts the videos. The Ice Core Paleoclimatology Group supplied further media and information. The five modules and videos are: Climate and Ice, Recovering Ice Cores, Calendar in Ice, Stories in Ice, Predictions from the Ice.Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
(a free online magazine for K-5 teachers and others)Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (BPPB), a project launched in March 2008 with funding from the National Science Foundation's International Polar Year (IPY), was recognized in January 2011 as a SPORE winner. The Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) encourages innovation and excellence in education and the use of high-quality on-line resources by students, teachers, and the public. BPPB is a free online magazine designed to help K-5 teachers integrate science, literacy, and information about the Polar Regions. Check out a video overview of the site! Although it was designed for K-5 teachers, BPPB is also useful for intervention specialists and other teachers because it provides nontechnical explanations of key science concepts and is highly visual. It is archived and accessible through the National Science Digital Library.
