Lonnie Thompson

Lonnie G. Thompson ( born 1948 ) is an American paleoclimatologist and professor at Ohio State University who specializes in the study of tropical and subtropical mountain glaciers and ice caps. Together with his wife, Ellen Mosley - Thompson, he leads a research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center, which performs paleoclimate analyzes of ice cores.

Research

Lonnie G. Thompson studied geology at the Marshall University and Ohio State University. In the 1970s, he was the first paleoclimatologist which tropical ice caps took ice cores, in order to draw conclusions about the climatic conditions of the past.

Show His regular observations and studies of individual glaciers since the 1970s that tropical mountain glaciers worldwide are in retreat and melt. Special media coverage found his investigations of the ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro, the end of the 19th century - though mainly due to lack of rainfall - is melting ..

In 2005, Thompson was a scientific advisor to Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

Awards

  • 2002: Dr. AH Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
  • 2002: Vega Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
  • 2005: Thompson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • 2005 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
  • 2007: National Medal of Science, presented by President George W. Bush
  • 2008: Mosley - Thompson and Thompson get together with Geoffrey Eglinton endowed to 1 million U.S. dollars Dan David Prize
  • 2012: Mosley - Thompson and Thompson received the Benjamin Franklin Medal

Publications (excerpt)

  • LG Thompson, E. Mosley - Thompson, H. Brecher, ME Davis, B. Leon, D. Les, TA Mashiotta, P.-N. Lin and K. Mountain: Evidence of abrupt tropical climate change: past and present. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 103, No. 28, 2006, p 10536th
  • LG Thompson, E. Mosley - Thompson, ME Davis, P.-N. Lin, K. Henderson and TA Mashiotta: Tropical glacier and ice core evidence of climate change on annual to millennial timescales. In: Climatic Change. Volume 59, 2003, pp. 137-155.
  • LG Thompson et al.: Kilimanjaro ice core records: evidence of Holocene climate change in tropical Africa. (PDF, 272 kB) In: Science. Volume 298, No. 5593, 2002, pp. 589-593, doi: 10.1126/science.1073198
  • LG Thompson: Ice core evidence for climate change in the Tropics: implications for our future. In: Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 19, 2000, pp. 19-35.
  • LG Thompson, T. Yao, ME Davis, KA Henderson, E. Mosley - Thompson, P.-N. Lin, J. Beer, H.-A. Synal, J. Cole - Dai and JF Bolzan: Tropical climate instability: the last glacial cycle from a Qinghai -Tibetan ice core. In: Science. Volume 276, No. 5320, 1997, pp. 1821-1825, doi: 10.1126/science.276.5320.1821
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