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More about Lonnie Thompson: Ice Man: Lonnie Thompson (written by Kevin Krajick, Science, October 18, 2002) El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker by Madeline Nash, Warner Books. |
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Henry is retired but still active at BPRC. His expertise is in application of standard photogrammetric and surveying techniques to glaciology, such as studies of the extent and motion of glaciers and ice sheets. He has conducted many years of field work in polar and glaciated mountain regions in both hemispheres and continues to enjoy opportunities to do so even after a 40-plus year "career". |
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Mary's specialization is in the measurement of particle concentrations and size distributions in ice cores, and particle characterization using light microscope, scanning electron microscope and electron microprobe techniques. She has participated in field programs in China, Peru, and Africa. Mary's dissertation is entitled "Climatic Interpretations of Aeolian Dust Records from Low-latitude, High-alititude Ice Cores." (2002) |
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Dr. Gabrielli's primary interest is in the study of ice cores with emphasis on paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions. In particular, he has developed an interest in trace elements analysis in polar ice cores, with special focus on cosmic input of extraterrestrial material, trace elements geochemical cycles and their relation to past environmental changes such as variations in climatic conditions and large-scale atmospheric transport. Recently, Dr. Gabrielli has developed a new lab at The Ohio State University for the determination of very low trace element concentrations in glacier ice by ICP-SFMS. Now he uses trace elements to reconstruct the sources of dust and pollutants deposited on the ice fields at mid- and tropical latitudes. Presently he is focusing on ice core archives from the highest elevations in the world such us those in Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), the Himalayas and Quelccaya (Peru). Since 2009, Dr. Gabrielli leads a large international program to study climatic and environmental changes on Mt. Ortles (South Tyrol, Italy): four cores have been drilled on Mt. Ortles during fall 2011 and an extensive educational outreach program has been established. Dr. Gabrielli has also participated in field programs in Antarctica (EPICA Dome C and Talos Dome), in the Alps (Colle Gnifetti), in Peru (Quelccaya and Hualcan) and Papua (Irian Jaya). |
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Before coming to the Byrd Center, Dr. Lin participated in a marine geophysical survey, aboard the R/V 'CHIU-LIEN' (National Taiwan University) and in the 1985 Seamount lava dredging, aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson (University of Washington). He served as a meteorologist in the Air force military service, Taiwan. He also gained experience in geothermal stable isotope (oxygen and hydrogen) studies while working for the Industrial Technology Research Institute, in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. His current research involves the analysis of stable isotopic (oxygen and hydrogen) ratios in ice cores collected from many parts of the world. He is also exploring the use of trace amounts of Nd and Sr isotopes as indicators of moisture source history. |
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Victor studies the hydro-thermal regime, and the structure of polar and sub-polar glaciers in the Eurasian Arctic. Data derived from deep ice cores were used to reconstruct climatic conditions on Svalbard and Severnaya Zemlaya during the last 4000 years. Currently Victor is preparing for a deep ice coring project on Graham Bell Island, Franz Jozef Land (Russia). It is anticipated that the paleoclimatic history from the new core will contribute to the completion of the Holocene history of the Eurasian Arctic. Victor is also developing new methods for continuous ice core analyses, ice core drilling and borehole logging. Victor has participated in over 20 expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic as well as on numerous mountains glaciers in Russia, Africa, China and Bolivia. His thermal-alcohol drill system was used in May 2002 to recover a 460-meter long core to bedrock on the Bona-Churchill col in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains of southeastern Alaska. |
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Jihong Cole-Dai Now Assistant Professor in Chemistry at South Dakota State University E-mail: Jihong_Cole-Dai@sdstate.edu |
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Dr. Duan takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating climatic and environmental change. His specific interests are in the recovery of climatic and environmental records from snow and ice in the high mountains, particularly those in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau. His current research focuses on the reconstruction of Indian Monsoon variability. In addition he has surveyed glacier variations on the Tibetan Plateau and participated in 10 field expeditions to the high glaciers of Tibet. Dr. Duan will spend 18 months at the Byrd Polar Research Center. |
P. Ross Edwards Former Byrd Postdoctoral Fellow Ross is now a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australian in the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics. E-mail: R.Edwards@curtin.edu.au |
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YC Fang, a native of Taiwan, came to United States in 1995 after receiving his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. In 1998, he received his M.S. degree in Applied Statistics from The Ohio State University (OSU), after which he joined the research group of Frank Schwartz, Eminent Scholar in the Geology Department at OSU. His first project was the 3-D in-situ destruction of chlorinated contaminant by oxidation flooding scheme in a simulated groundwater system. In 2000, his advisor inspired him to shift gears to research on scientific impact analysis using data mining techniques. His started to combine his background in statistics with data mining to discover interesting patterns in citation data. In October 2004 YC joined the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group as a Comer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focuses on ice core data assimilation and the development of mathematical and statistical methods for extracting spatial and temporal climate patterns from these unique, long-term paleoclimatic datasets. In addition to his scientific interests, YC is also an active choral singer in the University. |
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Sangsuk majored in material science and engineering for his bachelor's and master's degrees at POSTECH, a top-ranked university in Korea. His incessant passion for better environmental conservation was his primary motivation for attaining his Ph.D. in Environmental Science. His doctoral research was conducted under the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Geological Sciences, Frank Schwartz, involved in elucidating geochemical responses of urban streams to storms from chemical hydrologic perspectives. Sangsuk joined the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group as a Comer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. He has been developing protocols for the analysis of black carbon (along with organic carbon) preserved in ice cores with the goals of addressing anthropogenic emissions over the last few hundred years and reconstructing fire histories over thousands of years. As another project, he has completed the melt layer stratigraphy of the Quelccaya and Coropuna ice cores recovered in 2003 from the high tropical, southwestern Andes of Peru, and the results are going to be compared with other ice core proxies (i.e., stable isotopes) for better understanding of the trends of regionally-averaged surface temperatures. In addition, he has been attempting to assess the potential hydrologic impact that the ongoing disappearance of tropical glaciers in South America and East Africa will have on the water sources and ecosystems in the watersheds of the glaciers by employing the isotopic geochemistry of the snow that currently accumulates on the glaciers. One of his long-term goals is to investigate novel methods for effective carbon sequestration to moderate future anthropogenic warming of the Earth. |
Zhongqin Li Zhongqin Li is now Director of the Tianshan Glaciological Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Station supports 17 scientists and staff and operates year round. The Station web page is under development. email: lizq@ns.lzb.ac.cn |
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Wang's research interests include paleoclimatic reconstruction from the chemical and physical properties preserved in ice cores, correlation between the solar activity and the Earth's climate, the relationship of climatic changes in different areas, glacier fluctuations and the impact on water resources. He has conducted ice core drilling programs on the Tibetan Plateau and participated in glacier-water resource programs in western China. He has participated in over 10 expeditions to the high mountains for glaciological field studies. His research investigations have lead to development of a statistical model of the steady-state response of a mountain glacier to climate change, and provided evidence for the existence of sunspot cycles during the Maunder Minimum. Wang has found that during the Last Glacial Maximum the amplitude of the temperature decrease becomes enhanced with increasing altitude in the equatorial regions, and that the concentration of nitrate in the Guliya ice core from the Tibetan Plateau is positively correlated with solar activity. |
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Dr. Wu, a Visiting Scholar at BPRC, is a Postdoctoral Fellow from the Laboratory of Ice Core and Cold Regions Environment, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wu's research focuses on Central Asian atmospheric dust in ice cores recovered from the Tibetan Plateau and from loess sections in northwest China. He has participated in many Chinese ice core drilling programs and field expeditions to sample loess sections. |
Todd Albert M.A. Geography (Atmospheric Sciences), The Ohio State University B.S. in Geography, University of Florida, 1998 email: todd.albert@colorado.edu Todd's Master's Thesis research uses remote sensing technique to monitor the retreat of tropical alpine glaciers. He has been
funded as a teaching assistant in Geography and Atmospheric Sciences. Todd has also conducted research on the response in summer
rainfall in Florida during extreme ENSO events, and worked as a research assistant on several other studies. His academic interests
include paleoclimatology, climatological teleconnections, remote sensing, and natural hazards. |
Deborah Bathke Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, March, 2004. Dissertation Title: "Meteorological controls on the variability of net accumulation over Greenland." M.S. Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August, 1998 B.S., Meteorology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, December, 1995/p> Office phone: (505) 646-6327 E-mail: cocorahs@weather.nmsu.edu Deb is now the Assistant State Climatologist for New Mexico. She is in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. |
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Liz came to OSU in 2005 and joined the Ice Core Group as a Masters student. She previously received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University with a double major in Geology and English. Her research interests involve stable isotopes in tropical ice cores as recorders of temperature and precipitation. Last summer Liz spent time in the field studying the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. |
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Aron joined the ice core research group in 2005 after graduating from Colgate University. His undergraduate research focused on using the diatom record to reconstruct Holocene climate variability of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula. Presently, Aron is studying changes in the mid-Holocene climate of South America. Aron's work has taken him to the former Larsen B Ice Shelf region of the Antarctic Peninsula and to the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. |
Amanda Cavin M.S. Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2003 B.S. Geology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999 E-mail: cavin.13@osu.edu Amanda's thesis research involved mapping and dating moraines in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska near the Bona-Churchill ice core site. She used remote sensing techniques and radiocarbon dating to determine glacier advance and retreat history. The glacial geologic history will ultimately be correleated to the ice core history being reconstructed from the 460-meter core collected in May 2002 from the Bona-Churchill col. |
Brent Christner After graduation Brent had a postdoctoral position with Dr. John Priscu at Montana State University for several years and in 2006 he joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. |
Paul V. Dickfoss Paul V. Dickfoss received his M.S. in Geological Science (1996) under the direction of Lonnie G. Thompson. His thesis title is "Stratified ice accumulations as a source of proxy climate data." |
Robert Hellström Rob Hellström received his M.S. degree in the Atmospheric Science Program of the Department of Geography (1995) under the direction of Ellen Mosley-Thompson. His thesis title is "The abrupt spring temerature rise and pressure increase over the Greenland Ice Sheet". Rob completed his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences under the direction of John Arnfield (Department of Geography). E-mail: rhellstrom@bridgew.edu |
Keith A. Henderson Ph. D., Geological Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2002 M.S. in Geological Science, The Ohio State University, 1996 B.S. in Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, May 1986 email: keith.henderson@psi.ch Keith's Master's thesis is entitled "The El Niño Southern Oscillation and other modes of interannual tropical climate variability as recorded in ice cores from the Nevado Huascarán col, Peru" and his dissertation is entitled "An Ice Core Paleoclimate Study of Windy Dome, Franz Josef Land (Russia): Development of a Recent Climate History for the Barents Sea." Keith left Ohio State for a postdoctoral position at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland where he continued the previous work at Uvi-Berne by V. Lavanchy in extending the paleorecord of carbonaceous particle deposition from Alpine ice cores, as well as beginning this analysis on other cores from both the Altai and Andes mountain ranges. Black (or 'Elemental') carbon in the atmosphere has recently been understood to be a major factor in the total radiation budget of the global atmosphere as it responds to new input sources in the "anthropogenic era." |
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Jeff Johnson M.A., Climatology, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 2003 Thesis Title: "Volcanic signatures in Greenland ice cores: An investigation of the volcano-climate connection with an emphasis on the Laki Eruption." B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1993 E-mail: johnson.980@osu.edu |
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Natalie Kehrwald came to OSU in Fall Quarter, 2004 as a Ph. D student in the Department of Geological Sciences. Before coming to OSU, Natalie studied stable isotopes in precipitation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Natalie also served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer on the Bolivian altiplano where she created a municipal radio station and analyzed local water supplies. |
Neil Mackinnon Neil Mackinnon received his M.A. in the Department of Geography (1997) under the direction of Ellen Mosley-Thompson. His thesis title is "The application of remote sensing and geographic information system technologies to the monitoring of montane glaciers: A case study of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru". Neil has returned to Scotland to pursue a career in the area of GIS technologies. |
Bryan Mark Bryan Mark received his M.A. in the Department of Geography (Climatology, 1995) under the direction of Ellen Mosley-Thompson. His thesis title is "Temporal and spatial analysis of South Pole snow accumulation." Bryan received his Ph.D. at Syracuse University under the direction of Geoffrey Seltzer. In 2004 Bryan joined the faculty in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University. email: mark.9@osu.edu |
Chris Readinger M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 2003 Thesis Title: The North Atlantic and Pacific Oscillations and Their Imprint on Greenland's Climate Record. B.S. in Meteorology from Millersville University, Pennsylvania- December 2000 E-mail: creadinger@yahoo.com After graduation, Chris took a job with CSA in Bethesda, Maryland. |
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In the Spring of 2005, David Urmann joined the ice core group as a Ph.D. student. His thesis will focus on reconstructing the history of ENSO events from the Bona Churchill (Alaska) and Quelccaya (Peru) ice cores. |
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Lijia Wei came to OSU in Fall Quarter, 2004 as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography's Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Program. Lijia is the recipient of a University Fellowship. Her Ph.D. research project will include the reconstruction of the history of volcanically derived sulfate fluxes as recorded in Greenland ice cores. |