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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2005 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his pioneering research in paleoclimatology analyzing isotopic and chemical fingerprints found in tropical ice cores from the world's highest mountain glaciers and for his courage in collecting these disappearing climate archives that have transformed our understanding of the natural and anthropogenic factors influencing climate variability on our planet, past and present.", Awarded by President George W. Bush in a White House ceremony on July 27, 2007.
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lonnie G. Thompson is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. They specialize in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Pollution.

Their main research topics include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Lonnie G. Thompson has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change

Notable recent papers by Lonnie G. Thompson include:

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Glacier ice archives nearly 15,000-year-old microbes and phages, 2021, Microbiome
  • Early atmospheric contamination on the top of the Himalayas since the onset of the European Industrial Revolution, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The impacts of warming on rapidly retreating high-altitude, low-latitude glaciers and ice core-derived climate records, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Ellen Mosley-Thompson
  • Tandong Yao
  • M. E. Davis
  • M. Roxana Sierra-Hernández
  • Émilie Beaudon

Lonnie G. Thompson has received several awards recognizing their contributions to science, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005
  • US President's National Medal of Science, 2005, awarded for pioneering research in paleoclimatology analyzing isotopic and chemical signatures in tropical ice cores and for fieldwork on high mountain glaciers
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2001

Best Publications

  • Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie Thompson;Lonnie Thompson;Wei Yang;Wusheng Yu

  • Tropical Climate Instability: The Last Glacial Cycle from a Qinghai-Tibetan Ice Core

    L. G. Thompson;T. Yao;M. E. Davis;K. A. Henderson

  • The imbalance of the Asian water tower

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  • A High-Resolution Millennial Record of the South Asian Monsoon from Himalayan Ice Cores

    L. G. Thompson;T. Yao;E. Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;M. E. Davis

  • Late glacial stage and holocene tropical ice core records from huascaran, peru.

    L G Thompson;E Mosley-Thompson;M E Davis;Ping-Nan Lin

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa

    Lonnie G. Thompson;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;Mary E. Davis;Keith A. Henderson

  • Third Pole Environment (TPE)

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie G. Thompson;Volker Mosbrugger;Fan Zhang

  • A 25,000-Year Tropical Climate History from Bolivian Ice Cores

    L. G. Thompson;M. E. Davis;E. Mosley-Thompson;T. A. Sowers

  • Holocene--late pleistocene climatic ice core records from qinghai-tibetan plateau.

    L. G. Thompson;E. Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;J. F. Bolzan

  • A 1500-year record of tropical precipitation in ice cores from the quelccaya ice cap, peru.

    L. G. Thompson;E. Mosley-Thompson;J. F. Bolzan;B. R. Koci

  • The Little Ice Age as Recorded in the Stratigraphy of the Tropical Quelccaya Ice Cap

    L. G. Thompson;E. Mosley-Thompson;W. Dansgaard;P. M. Grootes

  • Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present

    Lonnie G. Thompson;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;Henry Brecher;Mary Davis

  • Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation.

    David Stahle Stahle;R. D. D'Arrigo;P. J. Krusic;M. K. Cleaveland

  • Ice‐core palaeoclimate records in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Lonnie G. Thompson;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;Keith A. Henderson

  • Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years

    Christophe Kinnard;Christian M. Zdanowicz;David A. Fisher;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Ice core evidence for climate change in the Tropics: implications for our future

    Lonnie G. Thompson

  • Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability over the Past ~1800 Years

    L. G. Thompson;E. Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;V. S. Zagorodnov

  • Tropical Glacier and Ice Core Evidence of Climate Change on Annual to Millennial Time Scales

    Lonnie G. Thompson;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;M. E. Davis;P.-N. Lin

  • Recovery and Identification of Viable Bacteria Immured in Glacial Ice

    Brent C. Christner;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;Lonnie G. Thompson;Victor Zagorodnov

  • Isolation of bacteria and 16S rDNAs from Lake Vostok accretion ice.

    Brent C. Christner;Ellen Mosley-Thompson;Lonnie G. Thompson;John N. Reeve

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Ellen Mosley-Thompson The Ohio State University
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paolo Gabrielli
Paolo Gabrielli The Ohio State University
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice
Ulrich Schotterer
Ulrich Schotterer University of Bern
Bruce P. Finney
Bruce P. Finney Idaho State University
Baiqing Xu
Baiqing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kam-biu Liu
Kam-biu Liu Louisiana State University
Pieter Meiert Grootes
Pieter Meiert Grootes Kiel University
Christophe Ferrari
Christophe Ferrari Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

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