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(Last updated 9/25/02)

Recent recognitions of OSU's paleoclimatology research group:

"Time Magazine, CNN Name OSU Geologist One Of "America's Best," 8/12/01

Time Magazine coverage of that citation, 9/18/02

Glaciologist Thompson To Receive Prestigious Heineken Award," 4/21/02.

Lonnie Thompson (left), Ohio State professor of geological sciences, is congratulated by Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander during ceremonies this week in Amsterdam as three American researchers were among the five winners of the Heineken Awards.

OHIO STATE RESEARCHER IS ONE OF FIVE RECEIVING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PRIZE

The winner of this year's prestigeous Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences is Ohio State University's Lonnie Thompson, professor of geological sciences and a world-renowned expert on tropical glaciers.

Thompson was one of five scientists receiving awards for their work this week in Amsterdam. The other two American researchers honored at the ceremonies were from the Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego

The awards are highly regarded by researchers both for their rigor and for the large monetary prize. Each winner receives $150,000 for their research. Among previous Heineken Prize winner are three researchers who were later selected for Nobel prizes.

Thompson received the award for his pioneering studies of ice cores from both the Earth's polar regions and tropics. The analysis of cores he has retreived from 45 expeditions to remote ice caps around the globe have offered the clearest evidence yet of the growing impact of global climate change. Last year, Thompson and his team stunned the scientific community by predicting that the huge icecap atop Tanzania's famous Mount Kilimanjaro will have melted in the next 15 years.

Along with Thompson at the ceremonies was his wife and research partner, Ellen Mosley Thompson, professor of geography at Ohio State and co-leader of the research effort.

Each year, committees of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences select winners in five categories: biochemistry and biophysics, art, medicine, history and environmental sciences. The Dr. H.P. Heineken Foundation sponsors the award for biochemistry and biophysics. The Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation supports the other four prizes.

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Contact: Lonnie Thompson, (614) 292-6652; thompson.3@osu.edu