Lonnie G. Thompson is a prominent American climatologist and glaciologist who specialized in studying the impacts of climate change on the Earth's glaciers and ice caps.
He is notable for his pioneering research in high-altitude ice core drilling, which allowed him to reconstruct a record of past climate change that spanned thousands of years.
Thompson led the first team of researchers to successfully drill and recover a continuous ice core from a tropical glacier, specifically the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru.
Thompson and his team published a landmark study in the journal Science, which provided the first direct evidence that the Earth's climate had undergone significant fluctuations during the last 2,000 years.
Thompson and his colleagues made headlines when they announced the discovery of a rapidly melting glacier atop Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro.
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