News Coverage

The following is a list of summaries and quotes from recent articles about the BPRC in print, online, and on television.

2008

Nature, April 16. Climate change: Losing Greenland. Article discusses ice loss from Greenland, the Earth's biggest ice sheet, and a network of stations that is being built to monitor ice loss. Ian Howat, Michael Bevis, Jason Box, and Adam Herrington are quoted or mentioned. Read Article

The Lantern, January 15. Scientists explore ice caps. Article highlights the work of Dr. Terry Wilson, professor in the School of Earth Sciences, and her students with the POLar Earth observing NETwork (POLENET) and the techniques that are being implemented. "POLENET is an international consortium that will be planting GPS stations, much like the ones in cars and handheld devices, and seismologic sensors along the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Four researchers from Ohio State are currently deployed in Antarctica as part of this season's 13-person installation team." Read Article

The Washington Post, January 14. Escalating ice loss found in Antarctica. "The new findings come as the Arctic is losing ice at a dramatic rate and glaciers are in retreat across the planet. At a recent annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Ohio State University professor Lonnie Thompson delivered a keynote lecture that described a significant speed-up in the melting of high-altitude glaciers in tropical regions, including Peru, Tibet and Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya." Read Article

EurekAlert!, January 10. Climate change, gender differences, health among EurekAlert! 10 Most Popular Stories in 2007. "Meanwhile, the third most popular story was based on an Ohio State University study that showed temperatures in Antarctica during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet. [...] David Bromwich, professor of atmospheric sciences in the Department of Geography, and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, reported however, 'It's hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now.'" Read Article

onCampus, January 9. In search for water on Mars, clues from Antarctica. Article discusses research done in the Dry Valleys in Antarctica by the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, whose lead principal investigator is Berry Lyons, director of the Byrd Polar Research Center. LTER scientists found many similarities between the Dry Valleys on Earth and sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface. Read Article

2007

MSNBC, December 14. Mysterious mud waves found on Arctic seafloor. "Along parts of the Arctic Ocean floor, currents have driven mud into huge piles, with some 'mud waves' nearly 100 feet across. [...] 'The mud waves could be caused by tidal fluctuations,' said expedition scientist Leonid Polyak of Ohio State University. 'But that's really just speculation at this point.'" News Article

National Science Foundation, October 9. Explorers Club to Honor NSF-Funded Researchers and Glaciologist for Climate-Science Breakthroughs. "W. Berry Lyons, an NSF grantee, director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University and lead principal investigator for the McMurdo Dry valleys Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) project will be honored for his studies of the geochemistry of global climate change." Press Release

The Columbus Dispatch; OSU Research News, October 9. Researchers Find Evidence of Warming Climate in Ohio. "Summer nights in Ohio aren't cooling off as much as they used to — and it's likely a sign of climatic warming across the state, researchers say. Jeffrey Rogers, professor of geography at Ohio State University, led the new study, which found that average summer nighttime low temperatures in Ohio have risen by about 1.7 degrees Celsius (about 3 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 1960s. [...] Coauthors on the study included Sheng-Hung Wang, a research associate at the Byrd Polar Research Center. Research Story | News Story

Apple.com, October 8. Drilling for Insight in Antarctica. Professor Larry Krissek, OSU School of Earth Sciences, Geological Sciences Division, appears in this article on the Apple.com website. This article features details of the ANDRILL (Antarctic Geological Drilling) project. Read Article

International Herald Tribune, July 17. Alarm over Indian glacier's hasty retreat. "Another glacier that Dobhal has tracked, known as Dokriani, lost 20 percent of its size in three decades. Between 1991 and 1995, its snout withdrew almost 17 meters each year. Similar losses are being seen around the world. Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, found a 22 percent loss of ice on the Qori Kalis glacier in Peru between 1963 and 2002." Read Article

Smithsonian Magazine, July 2007. Chronicling the Ice. "Long before global warming became a cause célèbre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought." Read Article

OSU Research News; National Science Foundation; Associated Press; May 29. Lonnie Thompson To Receive National Medal of Science. On May 29, 2007, President Bush announced the recipients of the 2005 Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement. "Lonnie Thompson, the Ohio State University glaciologist who has probably spent more time at high altitudes than any other person, was named today to receive the National Medal of Science for his work providing explicit evidence of global climate change." News Story | White House/NSF Press Release

Washington Post, March 22. Exploring Antarctica. Adam Lewis, a geologist at the Byrd Polar Research Center, participated in an online discussion about Antarctica and his travels there. You can also see him in a Washington Post Special Report titled, Exploring Antarctica. Multimedia report | Transcript of the discussion

OSU Research News, March 1. Worldwide research network needed to study Arctic. "An Ohio State University geologist today outlined a new plan to oceanographers that would consolidate much of the world's studies on the Arctic region into a global observation network. 'This is basically a plan to better understand how the Arctic is changing, but doing it in a new systematic, international and pan-Arctic way,' explained Berry Lyons, professor in the School of Earth Sciences and director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University." Research Story

Ohio State Alumni Magazine, March 2007. She studies sand by the seashore. "Welcome to Diane Foster's world. As a coastal engineer, Foster studies one of the most dynamic environments on the planet, the place where sea and shore intersect. Though she jokes that she gets paid to go to the beach, she's actually trying to understand the changes that occur when the shoreline is assaulted by storms." News Story

Washington Post, Feb. 18; Investor's Business Daily, Feb. 21. Article mentions David Bromwich, professor of atmospheric sciences, and his research on climate in Antarctica which shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. Research Story

Associated Press, Feb. 11; Times of London, Feb. 16; Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 16; Calgary Herald, Feb. 16; United Press International, Feb. 19; CBC News, Feb. 19; Los Angeles Times, April 7; U.S. News & World Report, June 4. Peru's glacier vanishing, scientists warn. "Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson and a team of scientists said they have found evidence the Qori Kalis glacier of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes could lose half its mass in 12 months and could be gone five years from now." Thompson received major coverage for a presentation he made at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Research Story

The Columbus Dispatch, February 2. Global Warning. "If climate scientists have one hope for the global-warming report that will be released today in Paris, it is that policymakers and the public understand that Earth is teetering on calamity. 'I think we're running out of time,' said Lonnie Thompson, an Ohio State University climate researcher who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report." News Story

CNN; New York Post, January 29; Montreal Gazette, January 29; Associated Press, January 29. Experts Slam Upcoming Global Warming Report. "'They don't take into account the gorillas -- Greenland and Antarctica,' said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. 'I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century.'"

2006

Live Science, December 13; United Press International, December 12. Invisible Mountains Revealed Under Greenland Ice. "Veiled by more than a mile of ice, an expanse of heavily scoured mountains and valleys in Greenland has remained out of sight until now. Using a new radar technique, scientists have constructed crude but useful 3-D images of the hidden land. [...] So detailed images of it all will allow scientists to predict how the ice sheet will respond to global warming, said lead researcher Ken Jezek of Ohio State University." Research Story

United Press International, December 12. Satellite Radar Gauges Water Levels in Louisiana Wetlands. "C.K. Shum, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, and his colleagues hope to develop the technique to aid studies of wetland hydrology — including the role that wetlands play in quelling storm surges caused by large hurricanes." Research Story

United Press International, Oct. 25. Christina O'Malley, doctoral student, and William Ausich, professor of earth sciences. Article about their research that isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures — the oldest such molecules yet found. Research Story

United Press International, Oct. 24. Bradley Cramer, doctoral student, and Matthew Saltzman, professor of earth sciences. Article about their research that found important rocks from Niagara Gorge — rock formations that are used to judge the ages of rocks and fossils around North America — formed five times faster than previously thought. Research Story

U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 14. Laura Kissel, polar curator of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program. Quoted in article about how we may never know for sure which explorer was the first to reach the North Pole.

News outlets around the world covered Andy Monaghan and colleages's research which was published in the journal Science, titled, Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year. "[Monaghan], a meteorologist at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, said in an interview that his findings suggest the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 prediction that Antarctic snowfall would increase 15 to 20 percent by the end of the century may not be borne out. Some researchers had hoped increased snowfall in the region would thicken the Antarctic ice sheets and help counterbalance any future melt."
Washington Post, August 11; Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 11; National Geographic News, August 11; Voice of America radio, August 12; Kansas City infoZine, August 12; Boston Globe, August 14; Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 16; New Scientist, August 19.

Washington Post, July 29. On the Roof of Peru, Omens in the Ice. "In the thin, cold air here atop the Andes mountains, the blue ice that has claimed these peaks for thousands of years and loyally fed the streams below is now disappearing rapidly. [...] 'You can think of these glaciers as a bank account built over thousands of years,' said Lonnie Thompson, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm, as he stood by the largest ice cap in the Andes. 'If you subtract more than you gain, eventually you go bankrupt. That's what's in process here.'" News Story

Washington Post, July 29. The 'Indiana Jones' of a Shrinking Realm. "[Thompson] has led 50 expeditions to glaciers around the world, enduring often brutal conditions to drill deep into the ice and extract ice core samples. 'Lonnie Thompson is one of the true scientific heroes of our age,' said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Harvard geochemist Daniel Schrag has called Thompson "the closest living thing to Indiana Jones.'" News Story

New York Times, July 27. Op-Ed: Cold, Hard Facts. Article by Peter Doran, Co-Principal Investigator for the LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Project. The LTER Project includes Berry Lyons, director of the Byrd Polar Research Center, and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. "In the debate on global warming, the data on the climate of Antarctica has been distorted, at different times, by both sides. As a polar researcher caught in the middle, I'd like to set the record straight." News Story

Ohio State Alumni Magazine, July-August, 2006. Goodbye to the snows of Kilimanjaro. "But in 2002, geological sciences professor and global warming expert Lonnie Thompson and colleagues shocked the scientific community by predicting that the famed Tanzanian ice fields would disappear between 2015 and 2020. [...] In his recent, third expedition to the summit, Thompson was saddened to see that the prediction is coming true." Read Article

News in Engineering, OSU College of Engineering, Autumn 2006. Making Waves. "Diane Foster grins when people ask her what she does for a living. 'I get paid to go to the beach,' she tells them. In all seriousness, she's not simply sitting by the surf and basking in the rays. Foster, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, is a coastal engineer. In short, she studies how sand grains move on the seabed." Read Article

The Polar Times, July 2006. Undergrads on Ice. Article covers the field work of April Jacobs and Liz Miller in Antarctica this past winter. Read Article

Columbus Monthly, July 2006. Global Warming Superstars. "Much of the scientific evidence used to document global warming comes from two pioneers in the field, Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson. Spouses and collaborators, they have spent their entire careers — more than 30 years — at Ohio State University, advancing knowledge and understanding in the relatively new specialty of paleoclimatology." Read Article

News outlets around the world covered recent research from Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson which shows a massive climate shift to a cooler regime that occurred just over 5,000 years ago, and a recent reversal to a warmer world within the last 50 years. The evidence also suggests that most of the high-altitude glaciers in the planet's tropical regions will disappear in the near future.
"[Thompson's] research — just published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) — posits that the earth experienced a major shift to a cooler climate 5,000 years ago, and is currently in the throes of a shift back to a much warmer climate." OSU Website Feature Story, Washington File (U.S. Dept of State), Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, Cape Times (South Africa), The Independent (UK), EarthTimes.org, June 27; The Australian (Australia), June 28.
News Story | Read the research publication

OSU News Release, June 7. Ohio State graduates plan to 'Do Something Great!'. "Having recently returned from field research in Antarctica, April Jacobs and Liz Miller (from Bellefontaine and Cincinnati, respectively), will earn B.S. degrees in Geological Sciences." News Story

OSU Research News, June 1. Big Bang in Antarctica: killer crater found under ice. "Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs [...] 'This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time,' said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University." Research Story

Akron Beacon Journal, May 17. OSU center keeps tabs on research at the poles. "So what's going on today in the world of polar exploration? Don't reach for the parka. The answer is a mere two-hour drive from Akron. Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center is one of the top facilities of its kind in the world. On any given day, up to 70 staff and students are working to absorb all that Earth's geographic extremes have to offer." News Story

CNN, April 23. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson were interviewed extensively about their work studying how changing climate has affected glaciers around the world. Their findings suggest global warming is a growing and serious problem.

Salon.com, April 28. The woes of Kilimanjaro. "Bouncing along a rutted dirt road lined with flat-topped acacia trees, renowned climatologist and Ohio State University professor Lonnie Thompson looks out of place in his chinos and running shoes. Thompson is internationally known for his ambitious expeditions to extract ice-core samples from some of the highest glaciers on earth, and for his no-nonsense talk about climate change." Read Article

The Lantern, April 20. Global Warming effects to hit close to home. "Although not much about this phenomenon seems relevant to the day-to-day life of a student, Lonnie G. Thompson, Ohio State professor of geology, said the Midwest has far more links to the Arctic and global warming than one might imagine. It is relevant and needs attention, he said. [...] Yo Chin, a researcher at the Byrd Polar Center, said he sees the effects in the Arctic first-hand. 'The glaciers are visibly retreating. It's pretty scary stuff.'" News Story

American Scientist, May-June 2006 (Vol 94 Num 3). Mountains of Evidence. "In the summer of 1997, a magazine editor telephoned science writer Mark Bowen to invite him to join paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson on the summit of Nevado Sajama, the highest peak in Bolivia." Read Article

Marshall University Alumni Magazine, Spring 2006. Ice Hunters. "Meet Dr. Lonnie Thompson and his wife Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, two world-renowned Marshall alumni who traverse the far reaches of the earth as part of their pioneering research on global warming. Read Article

National Geographic, March 30. Antarctica's Atmosphere Warming Dramatically, Study Finds. "David Bromwich, a meteorologist with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, said there's 'no doubt this [warming] is real'. But, he added, the finding only 'deepens the mystery of what's going on over Antarctica.'" News Story

Portland Oregonian, February 22; United Press International, February 10. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences, was interviewed about his latest research trip to Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, which shows that the mountain's famous snow-covered peak continues to melt as the result of global climate change. Research Story

The Columbus Dispatch, February 21. Glacier melt worse than feared, OSU pair says. "A new study suggests that Greenland's glaciers are melting at a rate three times as fast as 60 years ago. As scary as that sounds, two scientists at Ohio State University warn the situation is even worse. Jason Box and David Bromwich, of the OSU Byrd Polar Research Center, say figures published in the current issue of the journal Science are too conservative." News Story

Newswise, February 13. Snows of Kiliminjaro Disappearing, Glacial Ice Loss Increasing. "For Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences, his third expedition to the summit of Kilimanjaro was all too much like visiting a sick friend in failing health." News Story

The Antarctic Sun, February 12. Collaboration is key to Dry Valleys work. Article covers the MCM-LTER project of which the BPRC Environmental Geochemistry Group is a member. News Story

NPR: Science Friday, February 10. "The world's glaciers are falling victim to a warming planet. Join Ira in this hour of Science Friday for a conversation with author Mark Bowen and scientist Lonnie Thompson, who travels the world documenting shrinking mountain glaciers." News Story

Columbus Dispatch, January 25. Warmest year? It's not the heat, it's the trend. "We've had this string of very warm years; the warmest part has been in the 1990s and now into this new millennium," said David Bromwich, a scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center". Ellen Mosley-Thompson also mentioned. News Story

Boston Globe, January 22. Article discussed how Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences, is the focus of Mark Bowen's book entitled, "Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains."

Grist Magazine, January 19. Climb-It Science. An Interview with swashbuckling climate scientist Lonnie Thompson. Read Article

OSU Website Feature Story, January 10. Conducting research (and blogging) from the South Pole: Liz Miller. News Story

New Scientist, January 7. Jason Box, assistant professor of geography. Article mentioned his work developing an algorithm that will enable scientists to gauge the depth of Arctic lakes from satellite images, simply by measuring the intensity of their color. This will help in studies of the melting of polar ice sheets.

2005

Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, December 27. Icebreaker Expedition Collects Key Arctic Seafloor and Ice Data. Article by Dennis A. Darby, Martin Jakobsson, and Leonid Polyak. News Story

NASA Earth Observatory, December 19. We're mentioned in Paleoclimatology: The Ice Core Record.

Antarctic Sun, December 18. RIME to find reasons for Antarctic Weather. Article quotes Andy Monaghan and David Bromwich about their involvement in RIME (Antarctic Regional Interactions Meteorology Experiment). News Story

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, December 6. Video, A Tour of the Cryosphere: Earth's Frozen Assets includes graphics based on BPRC's 1997 RADARSAT data. Watch Video

NASA Earth Observatory, December 6. We're mentioned in Mosaic of Antarctica.

OSU Research News, November 30. "Researchers are designing a new instrument named GISMO that could uncover parts of the planet that haven't seen the light of day for millions of years. What it finds underneath miles of polar ice could give scientists a new perspective on global climate change. Ken Jezek, professor of geological sciences, said that GISMO's dual-antenna radar system will exploit the same physical phenomenon that creates colorful swirls on the surface of an oily puddle of water." Research Story

New Scientist, November 26. "Lonnie Thompson has spent 30 years on ice, and believes his ice cores show that the tropics, and not the poles, drive climate variability." News Story

Washington Post, November 20. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. The Post reviewed the book, Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance," which in one chapter focuses on Thompson's work studying ice cores drilled from glaciers around the world.

Rolling Stone, November 17. Dr. Lonnie Thompson, "The Ice Hunter", is hailed as one of "Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off the planetwide catastrophe". News Story

Nature, Vol. 438(157) November 10. Dr. Lonnie Thompson, "Peaks in Climate Research", Book Review of Dr. Mark Bowen's book entitled, "Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains" News Story

Endeavors (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Fall 2005. "Kate Harris is a senior biology major and Morehead Scholar at Carolina. An aspiring astronaut and polar scientist, she took a semester off to do field research in Antarctica through an internship with Berry Lyons of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University." Research Story

Unidata Newsletter, October 2005. OSU Weather Server and BPRC mentioned in the article. "The Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) runs the Polar MM5 [computer model] over the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland domains." News Story

The Lantern, October 27. "Ohio State students do what they can to beat winter's icy grip, some fleeing to popular tourist destinations such as Florida, Cancun or the Caribbean. But this winter, two undergraduate researchers are heading so far south it will be summer when they arrive at their destination. Funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, April Jacobs and Liz Miller, seniors studying geological sciences, are taking a trip to the frozen continent of Antarctica this December. Although it will be summer there, Jacobs and Miller won't be beating the cold." News Story

Suburban News Publications: Worthington, October 19. Watercolor paintings created by Worthington elementary school students will be used to help illustrate a new children's book called The Lost Seal. Former Linworth Alternative School science teacher Carol Landis, now the education outreach representative from Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, along with OSU student April Jacobs, read The Lost Seal to second-grade students at Bluffsview Elementary School on Friday and at Liberty Elementary School on Monday. News Story

Associated Press, September 20. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Feature article discusses his work documenting how melting glaciers show evidence of global climate change. The article focuses on his summer expedition to the Andes in Peru, where he found that the largest ice sheet in the tropics, Quelccaya, is retreating as fast as 1 foot (33 centimeters) a day. Research Story

New Scientist, August 27. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article mentioned his research that suggests that the famous ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro is melting away because of global climate change and may disappear in the near future.

Agence France Presse (French wire service), August 22. Jason Box, assistant professor of geography. Article mentioned his research that has showed the Ilulissat glacier in Greenland has been melting at an alarming rate due to global climate change.

Associated Press, August 1. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Quoted in article about how, if current warming trends continue, Glacier National Park will have no glaciers in 30 years.

New Scientist, July 16. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article mentioned his research that suggests that many tropical glaciers may be melting away because of global climate change.

United Press International, May 31. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article mentioned his research that suggests that the famous ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro is melting away because of global climate change and may disappear in the near future.

Associated Press, April 11. Article noted that Ohio State is one of nine universities awarded a $19 million National Science Foundation grant to form the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS). The center will study the melting of polar ice caps. Related Research Story; NSF press release

CNN Presents: Melting Point, March 27. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences; Ellen Mosley-Thompson, professor of geography. Interviewed for a news program that examined some of their research on climate change that suggest the world is rapidly warming.

San Diego Union-Tribune, February 23; Scripps Howard News Service, Feb. 3. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Quoted in article about his research showing that glaciers around the world are melting at extraordinary speeds, indicating that global warming is becoming a serious problem.

New Scientist, February 12; Associated Press, Feb. 5. Article mentioned the work of the late John Mercer, an Ohio State geologist who forecast in the 1970s that warming would cause the Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves to disintegrate, from north to south. His prediction appears to be coming true.

Associated Press, January 28. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Quoted in article about his research showing that glaciers around the world are melting at extraordinary speeds, indicating that global warming is becoming a serious problem.

2004

Financial Times, December 17; NPR's Talk of the Nation, Dec. 17. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Quoted and interviewed about his discovery on an ice cap in Peru of plants at least 50,000 years old. These plants recently were exposed as the result of a melting glacier. The find suggests that the ice cap most likely has not deteriorated to its current size for any length of time in more than 50,000 years.

New York Times, November 9; International Herald Tribune, Nov. 10. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article about his research showing that glaciers in Tibet and around the world are melting at extraordinary speeds, indicating that global warming is becoming a serious problem.

The Wall Street Journal, October 22. When a Plant Emerges from Melting Glacier, Is it Global Warming? Article about Lonnie Thompson's experiences and data from the his studies of Quelccaya, the world's largest tropical glacier.

Houston Chronicle, October 17. Henry Brecher, Byrd Polar Research Center. Article about a new study by Brecher and researchers from around the world that found some of Antarcticas glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably.

The ice core group helped produce an hour special on global warming to air later this year by South Korean TV. We are currently working on the production of a high definition TV special with the American Natural History Museum on Global Climate Change that will air in New York as well as other 20 museums around the world. The film crew accompanied Lonnie and Ellen to the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the summer of 2004 and are coming October 28 and 29 to complete the film by shooting footage in the labs. We are also contributing to a BBC Horizons hour special on the Mochica culture in Peru and the potential climate and environmental connection to its demise in 700 A.D. as suggested by our NSF-sponsored research on the Quelccaya ice cores from Peru.

The OSU ice core results were included in the Proceedings of Congressional Record of the 107th Congress second session in 2002 on global warming as part of the energy legislation. In 2004, Lonnie Thompson was one of eleven scientists who participated in the AAAS Climate Science Briefing for senators, congressmen, staffers and reporters in Washington, D.C. (Science, 2004). In 2004 our media outreach program included highlights of the ice core research in more than 20 newspaper articles around the world (e.g., New York Times, Columbus Dispatch, Wall Street Journal). This exposure extended to television (CNN), National Geographic Magazine (September 2004 issue on Global Warming: Bulletins from a Warmer World) and National Geographic Adventure Magazine (August 2004: The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson).

Columbus Dispatch, June 8. Global-warming thriller educates while entertaining moviegoers, scientists say. Lonnie Thompson, William Lyons and Jason Box, of Ohio State University Byrd Polar Research Center, were quoted about The Day After Tomorrow, a movie about global warming.

United Press International, May 11. Anne Carey, assistant professor of geological sciences; and Carolyn Dowling, post-doctoral investigator with the Byrd Polar Research Center. Article about their research using two water-testing methods together for the first time to help a Gulf Coast tourist community manage its water supply.

National Public Radio's Living On Earth, March 6. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Report mentioned his research that shows some tropical glaciers are melting in response to global climate change.

New York Times, March 23; International Herald Tribune, March 25; Montreal Gazette, March 28; National Post, March 27. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article mentioned his research that suggests that the famous ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro is melting away because of global climate change and may disappear in the near future.

2003

United Press International, December 8. Bea Csatho, research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center. Article about her research that found one of the world's fastest-moving glaciers — the Jakobshavnis Glacier in Greenland — is speeding up and retreating rapidly.

London Guardian, November 27. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article mentioned his research suggesting that many glaciers and ice caps atop mountains in Africa will probably disappear within the next 15 years because of global warming, and little can be done to save them.

United Press International, November 7. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article about his latest expeditions to ice caps in the high, tropical Peruvian Andes Mountains that may shed light on a mysterious global climate change that occurred more than 5,000 years ago.

New Scientist, November 2. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Article about his latest research, which predicts that the ice cap atop the famed African mountain Kilimanjaro will melt away within the next 20 years, the victim of global warming.

New York Times, November 24; Montreal Gazette, Nov. 24. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Quoted in article about his research showing that glaciers in the Andes mountains are melting rapidly because of global warming, causing concerns about future water supplies in the region.

Columbus Dispatch, October 28. Dr. Anne M. Grunow, Polar Rock Array at OSU will aid Antarctic research.

Columbus Disptach, October 7. Professor David Bromwich. Ice shelf in Arctic breaking into pieces.

USA Today, September 15. Article noted that Ohio State's Polar Meteorology Group was involved in developing weather forecasts that helped guide a plane to the South Pole to rescue an ill worker.

Columbus Dispatch, September 9. Gov. Bob Taft nominates Ellen Mosley-Thompson to the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.

Columbus Dispatch, September 8. Professor David Bromwich's Polar Meterology group. Antarctic Weathering Forecasting system developed at OSU Byrd Polar Research Center plays a key role in the rescue of more than 100 scientists and crew members from the stranded supply vessel Magdalena Oldendorff.

Columbus Dispatch; September 3. Professor Bob W. Wagner and Laura Kissel, OSU Preserves Films of Antarctica.

Columbus Dispatch, March 14. Professors Lonnie G. Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson. No room for ice is core of problem.

Time Magazine, February 3. Professor W. Berry Lyons. "Cracking the Ice." Article about what scientists have learned in Antarctica.

Christian Science Monitor, January 8. David Bromwich, associate professor of geography. Quoted in article about attempts by researchers to learn more about the history of climate change in Antarctica.

2002

Cable News Network, December 21. Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences. Interviewed about his research that predicts that the ice cap atop the famed African mountain Kilimanjaro will melt away within the next 20 years, the victim of global warming.

News outlets around the world covered the research of Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences, who predicted that the ice cap atop the famed African mountain Kilimanjaro would melt away within the next 20 years, the victim of global warming.
Washington Post, Oct. 21; USA Today, Oct. 18; Portland Oregonian, Oct. 30; Memphis Commercial Appeal, Oct. 18; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 18; NPR's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday", Oct. 18; NPR's "All Things Considered", Oct. 17; The Independent (London), Oct. 18; The London Mirror, Oct. 18; Associated Press, Oct. 17; Science, Oct. 18; Reuters News Service, Oct. 17; Scripps Howard News Service, Oct. 17; United Press International, Oct. 21.

Columbus Dispatch, September 3. Professor Lonnie G. Thompson, "Passionate to the Core". Article about Dr. Thompson's ice core research field expeditions.

To see previous news coverage of BPRC and The Ohio State University, please visit OSU Research News.