Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
[4][5][6] Studies at BPRC include paleoclimatology, remote sensing, polar meteorology, glacier dynamics, satellite hydrology, paleoceanography, environmental geochemistry, and climate change.
This group has conducted studies of the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica since 1993 as part of the NSF’s Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program.
Additionally, the group has studied of the deposition of mercury on the landscape in the U.S. and in Antarctica, and led investigations of chemical and physical weathering of rocks of high-standing oceanic islands like Taiwan and New Zealand.
A common type of biological particles is foraminifers, single-celled, amoeba-like protists that have a shell and either live on the sea bottom or float in the upper water column.
This group is working to better quantify the amount of water stored in snowpacks in the United States using satellite measurements.
SWOT is a joint effort between NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the French space agency, CNES.
[12][13] Specializing in tropical mountain regions, we study sites along the entire American Cordillera, in Africa, and in Central Ohio.
Precise measurements from sensors on satellites and airplanes quantify ongoing glacier volume changes; landforms and lake sediments reveal past glacier-climate changes; the hydrochemistry of surface waters reflects glacier melt contribution; and computer simulations help explain past and future dynamics.
The PRR is a national facility that houses rock sample collections from Antarctica obtained by U.S. scientists over the past 40+ years.
2005 Jason Box assisted Konrad Steffen in automatic weather station maintenance at Swiss Camp and sites that comprise the Greenland Climate Network.
obtain an ice core from a position in southeast Greenland where the Polar MM5 model simulates a maximum in snow accumulation, 2.)
2007 In June, 2007, Jason Box established time lapse cameras beside 5 major west Greenland outlet glaciers.
2008 During a 3-week field campaign, Jason Box, Ian Howat, Slawek Tulaczyk, and Yushin Ahn conducted measurements on Store Glacier, west Greenland.
2009 Jason Box installed time lapse cameras at Petermann Glacier in anticipation of a large area loss that eventually did occur August, 2010.
