Ellen Mosley-Thompson

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Ellen S. Mosley-Thompson (* 1952 as Ellen Mosley ) is an American geographer , glaciologist and climate researcher .

Life

Ellen Mosley-Thompson studied physics at Marshall University in Huntington with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and geography from Ohio State University with a master's degree in 1975 and a doctorate in 1979 with a dissertation in climatology. She has been there since 1973 at the Institute of Polar Studies (from 1988 Byrd Polar Research Center). In 1990 she became an associate professor and in 1995 a professor. From 2009 to 2017 she was director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and from 2010 was Distinguished University Professor.

She has been analyzing ice cores from the Antarctic since 1974 , already working with her husband Lonnie G. Thompson at that time , and was doing field research at the Siple Station , the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and the Plateau Station . She led nine expeditions to Antarctica and six to Greenland for the extraction of ice cores for the reconstruction of climate history. In 2010 she led the team for the ice core project (448 m to the bedrock) on the Bruce Plateau in Graham Land in West Antarctica , the US contribution to the International Polar Year .

In 2008 she received the Dan David Prize with Lonnie G. Thompson and in 2012 the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute .

She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), the American Philosophical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union . She is an honorary doctor from Colgate University and the University of Pennsylvania .

The Mosley-Thompson Cirques , a mountain basin in East Antarctica, Victoria Land, are named after her .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mosley-Thompson, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosley, Ellen (maiden name); Mosley-Thompson, Ellen S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geographer and paleoclimatologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952