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Ice pioneer to study New Guinea glaciers before they vanish
Lonnie Thompson, American glaciologist, ventures to Puncak Jaya in Papua New Guinea to drill ice cores and document tropical glacier loss. The expedition aims to read past temperatures and El Niño history, informing future climate forecasts and drought patterns as glaciers melt.
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New Guinea
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Puncak Jaya
Lonnie Thompson
Thompson
Mount Jaya
Itape
Snape
Pacific
Pun‘eak Jaya
Ohio State University
White House
Peruvian Andes
Kilimanjaro
U.S
National Science Foundation
Cary
Columbus
Ohio