This looks realy good! 

Seminar:    “Lessons Learned from the High Mountains”

Speaker:    Professor Lonnie Thompson

Venue:       Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, MacLaurin LT 101

 

Date:          Tuesday 30th September

 

Time:          3.10 - 4.00 pm
Former Vice President Al Gore said, "Lonnie Thompson's work is the most serious warning cry yet that it is time to change our ways, and protect our children's future. I'm honoured to consider Lonnie my friend and ally."

Lonnie Thompson is a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for drilling ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world.

Ellen Mosley-Thompson, his wife, who will be accompanying him to Wellington, is also a paleoclimatologist and University Professor in the Geography Department at The Ohio State University.  Together, they run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center (http://bprc.osu.edu/Icecore/)

Lonnie received the 2007 US National Medal for Science from George Bush for his work on tropical ice cores and their record of a changing global climate (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ltmdlsci.htm)

Recently Lonnie spoke to an audience of 5,000 in San Francisco, where he delivered the AGU frontiers in geophysics lecture, which was simultaneously webcast around the world. Attendees thought he was truly inspiring and entertaining.

In 2002, he was awarded the Heineken Prize and the Vega Medal, in 2005 the Tyler Prize and along with his long time colleague and wife Ellen, in 2008, the Dan David Prize.   And, in August 2008, he received the highest honour in glaciology, the Seligman Crystal award from the International Glaciological Society.

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