朗尼·汤普森教授,是世界顶尖古生物气象学家之一,高海拔冰核钻探领头人。汤普森读研究生的时候,冰川科学只关注两极地区,但他并没有被流行的观点所左右,坚信热带高山冰川的冰核可能蕴含着更多世界气候历史的信息。从那时起,汤普森从全世界收集高海拔冰川样本,他还是第一个在喜马拉雅山冰川进行钻探的科学家。 Professor Lonnie Thompson, one of the world’s leading paleontology meteorologists, is a leader in high altitude ice core drilling. When Thompson was a graduate student, glaciology focused only on bipolar areas, but he was not left with a popular view that the ice nuclei of the tropical alpine glaciers may contain more information on the history of the world’s climate. Since then, Thompson has collected samples of high-altitude glaciers from around the world and was the first scientist to drill in the Himalayas glacier.