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The Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program (BPRCAP) - The Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program (BPRCAP) is a collaborative effort of the Byrd Polar Research Center and The Ohio State University Archives. Its mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical documents concerned with polar regions. The goal of the BPRCAP is to make rare or unique historical material about polar exploration and scientific investigation available for use in the context of an active polar research environment. Historical collections contain papers, records, photographs and other forms of documentation concerning explorers, scientists and other figures and organizations prominent in the advancement of knowledge about polar environments.
Byrd Polar Research Center - Named in honor of one of America's most famous explorers, the Byrd Polar Research Center of The Ohio State University is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research. The Center's research programs are conducted throughout the world. Research at the Center focuses on the role of cold regions in the global climate system, with major research themes focused on:
- climatic reconstruction of glacial and post-glacial times
- polar ice-sheets: dynamics, history and ice-atmosphere interactions
- high-latitude landform evolution, soils and hydrology
- geologic evolution of Antarctica
- and the history of polar exploration
Scientists at the Center are reconstructing past climate by studying chemical records preserved in ice cores collected from glaciers in Greenland, China, Peru and Antarctica. Fossils provide important evidence for much older changes in climate and plant fossils collected in the Transantarctic Mountains indicate that parts of the southern continent were once forested. Environmental studies include programs in Alaska and Russia which are concerned with hydrologic and geochemical cycles in permafrost terrains and interactions with the biosphere. Modern processes such as the motion of the great ice sheets and the circulation of storm systems around Antarctica are being studied with sophisticated computer models and with satellite-borne sensors capable of imaging the surface through cloud cover and during the long polar night.
"With Admiral Byrd at the Movies" - A conference to be held at the Wexner Center for the Arts on the campus of The Ohio State University October 20-21, 2001. More details will be available soon.
An interview with Dr. Goerler of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program on Admiral Byrd's North Pole Flight for the documentary Alone on the Ice.
An interview with Dr. Goerler of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program on Admiral Byrd's diary for the documentary Alone on the Ice