Lonnie Thompson

Lonnie Thompson (Lanyard) (Gassaway, Zapadna Virginia, 1. srpnja 1948.) je američki paleoklimatolog, nositelj naslova Istaknutog sveučilišnog profesora na školi za geoznanosti pri Sveučilištu Ohio State. Stekao je globalno priznanje za rad na proučavanju ledene kore s planinskih ledenjaka i ledenih kapa u tropskim i suptropskim krajevima svijeta. Sa suprugom Ellen Mosley-Thompson vodio je paleoklimatološku istraživačku skpinu pri Polarnom istraživačkom centru Byrd, gdje su bušenjem vadili uzorke leda u valjcima.

Publikacije

NSF, NASA, NOAA i NGS odobrile su Lonnieju Thompsonu 53 istraživačke dotacije. Objavio je 165 radova. Sažeti popis ekspedicija, dotacija i publikacija može se naći na stranicama Sveučilišta Ohio State..

Istaknuti radovi su:

• Thompson, L. G.; Mosley-Thompson, E.; Brecher, H.; Davis, M.; León, B.; Les, D.; Lin, P. -N.; Mashiotta, T.; Mountain, K. (2006). "Inaugural Article: Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (28): 10536.
• Tropical glacier and ice core evidence of climate change on annual to millennial time scales. L.G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson, M.E. Davis, P.-N. Lin, K. Henderson, T.A. Mashiotta, 2003. Climatic Change 59, 137-155.
• Thompson, L. G.; Mosley-Thompson, E.; Davis, M. E.; Henderson, K. A.; Brecher, H. H.; Zagorodnov, V. S.; Mashiotta, T. A.; Lin, P. N.; Mikhalenko, V. N.; Hardy, D. R.; Beer, J. (2002). "Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa". Science 298 (5593): 589–593. doi:10.1126/science.1073198. PMID 12386332.
• Thompson, L. G. (2000). "Ice core evidence for climate change in the Tropics: Implications for our future". Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 19–18. doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00052-9.
• Thompson, L. G.; Yao, T.; Davis, M. E.; Henderson, K. A.; Mosley-Thompson, E.; Lin, P. N.; Beer, J.; Synal, H. A.; Cole-Dai, J. (1997). "Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core". Science 276 (5320): 1821.

Vanjske poveznice

• Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group, the Thompson's research group at OSU.
• Lonnie Thompson's web page at Byrd Polar
• Ellen Mosley-Thompson's web page at Byrd Polar
• Lonnie Thompson's Department of Geological Sciences faculty home page
• Ellen Mosley-Thompson's Department of Geography faculty home page
• "Rapid Climate Change in the Earth System: Past,Present,Future" 2002 Heineken Prize lecture by Prof. Thompson
• Lonnie Thompson, biography from the Encyclopedia of World Biography
• "Deciphering the ice: scientist drills into tropical glaciers for clues to Earth's climate changes" from CNN/Time.
• "Science Goes to New Heights", article about Thompson's research in The Antarctic Sun. June 27, 2008
• The Habitable Planet video
• Dan David Prize laureate 2008
• WOSU Public Media profiled the Thompson's polar research in 2008 in a two video segments distributed nationally.