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Dr. Paul Mayewski

Dr. Paul Mayewski

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Dr. Paul Mayewski is a world-renowned glaciologist and climate scientist, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, recognized for leading more than fifty polar expeditions to study ice core records of Earth's climate history. As a guest on late-night radio, his firsthand exploration of the planet's frozen archives and his analysis of abrupt climate change events brought authoritative scientific perspective to discussions of Earth changes and environmental instability.

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October 16, 2002: Climate Change - Dr. Paul Mayewski

Oct 16, 2002
2h 54m
Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Mayewski, a world leader in ice core collection and analysis who has led more than 50 Antarctic and high mountain expeditions. Dr. Mayewski explains how ice cores function as a year-by-year record of Earth's climate history, capturing gas content, dissolved chemistry, dust particles, an...