Prof. Lonnie G. Thompson of Ohio State University will present the Ninth Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture. A renown geologist and authority on ice-cores, Lonnie Thompson is Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center. His research involves the study of ice samples he and his team have collected from drilling ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions on five continents. Among his many honors, he is a recipient of The Tyler Prize—the World Prize for Environmental Achievement (2005), the U.S. National Medal of Science (2007), and he was named a 2008 Hero of the Environment by Time Magazine.

For more information see Prof. Thompson's link at the OSU Byrd Polar Research Center.

The Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the MIT Center for Global Change Science, the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A reception will held be immediately following the lecture in the Ida M. Green Room, MIT Building 54, Room 923, 9th floor.