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4 unusual facts about Byrd Polar Research Center


Byrd Polar Research Center

Ice sheet flow into the ocean is increasing and in western Antarctica, the ice stream is draining into the Ross Ice Shelf with marked acceleration.

Dr. Lonnie Thompson has led research expeditions to the glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro.

The Transantarctic Mountains bisect the continental ice sheets, with different ice flow dynamics on either side.

Mount Askin

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Rosemary A. Askin, geologist, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, who, 1970–2000, worked in such diverse parts of Antarctica as Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands, Victoria Land and the Transantarctic Mountains, including the general vicinity of this mountain.


Bromwich Terrace

It was named after David H. Bromwich of the Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, who carried out climatological investigations of Antarctica for over 20 years beginning about 1978.

Mosley-Thompson Cirques

They were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after glaciologist Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson of the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, who for many years from 1974 onwards analyzed ice samples from Antarctica and conducted field research at the South Pole, at Siple Station, and at Plateau Remote Camp.


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