Icy Warning from the World’s Highest Mountains

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Join Lonnie Thompson in this TEDX talk about drilling ice cores & how to get them from far off lands to the Byrd Polar Research Center.

Dr. Lonnie Thompson is a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist in the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University.  He has  published 165 papers. Dr. Thompson has received many awards including The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2005) and The National Medal of Science (2005).  With his wife, Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, they share several more awards including the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2012).

For Dr. Thomson’s most recent documentary, see:  Canary