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Austin M. Weber

Austin M. Weber

On the summit of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru

Contact Information

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Earth Sciences

Email
Email Austin M. Weber weber.1158@osu.edu
Office
Scott Hall 048, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center 1090 Carmack Road Columbus, Ohio 43210 For deliveries: 2650 Kenny Rd. Scott Hall 108 Columbus, OH 43210
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Professional Website

Areas of Expertise

  • Ice Core Paleoclimatology
  • Mineral Dust
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • In progress - Ph.D. Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
  • 2022 - M.S. Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University
  • 2020 - B.A. Chemistry, Berea College

Austin is interested in how the climate of the past is archived by mountain glaciers in the high-altitude tropics.   His current dissertation work is focused on the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) to classify mineral dust particles in ice cores from Earth's highest tropical mountain.  He hopes to develop a robust mineral dust timeline to track the evolution of dust transport in tropical South America since the Late Glacial Stage (~20,000 years ago) and to build repositories for open-source data/software that other researchers can use to help advance the field of tropical ice core dust research. 

See some of Austin's latest projects on his GitHub.

Advisor - Lonnie G. Thompson

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