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Scientist Watches Glacier Melt Beneath His Feet

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Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led a team of scientists drilling for ice cores atop the Puncak Jaya glacier in Papua,  Indonesia. Here, their base camp sits below a massif bearing one of the upper ice fields. (Ohio State University)
Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led a team of scientists drilling for ice cores atop the Puncak Jaya glacier in Papua, Indonesia. Here, their base camp sits below a massif bearing one of the upper ice fields. (Ohio State University)

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