Lonnie Thompson | |
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 Thompson in 2015 | |
| Born | July 1, 1948 (age 76) Gassaway, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Thesis | Microparticles, ice sheets and climate (1976) |
Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from ice caps and mountain glaciers in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center.[1][2]
- ^ "Byrd Polar Research Center Directory". September 29, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2010.
- ^ Zagorski, N. (2006). "Profile of Lonnie G. Thompson". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (31): 11437–11439. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10311437Z. doi:10.1073/pnas.0605347103. PMC 1544187. PMID 16868075.