Global Climate change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highests Mountains

 Lonnie Thompson, PhD, Byrd Polar Research Center

4:30-6:00pm, Filene Auditorium

Lonnie Thompson of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. A high altitude climber and paleoclimatologist who studies climate change by looking at the entire history of the Earth, Thompson has spent more time above 18,000 feet than any other person in the world, according to Rolling Stone magazine. As recently as this Fall, he recovered two of the deepest ice cores every recovered from the Andes (195 and 189 meters). In 2007, he received the National Medal of Science, the highest honor the U.S. gives to an American scientist