Ellen Mosley-Thompson

Ellen Mosley-Thompson is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography (Atmospheric Science Program) and Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University. She specializes in paleoclimatology, using ice core data from polar regions and high-altitude glaciers to reconstruct Earth's climate history. Her research highlights climate shifts outside natural variability over the past 2000 years.

Education: Ph.D. (1979), M.A. (1975), and B.S. (1970) from Ohio State University and Marshall University.

Research Focus: Paleoclimatology, ice core analysis, climate change impacts, glaciology, and Holocene climate variability. She has led 15+ expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland, including the 2010 Bruce Plateau ice core drilling project.

Awards: Member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society; Benjamin Franklin Medal; Dan David Prize; and numerous university honors.

Labs/Teams: Lead researcher in the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group at the Byrd Center, advancing ice core methodologies and global climate datasets.

Grants/Publications: Secured 62 research grants and authored 156 peer-reviewed articles, emphasizing ice core-derived climate reconstructions and climate change mechanisms.