OSU Professor described as ‘the real life Indiana Jones’ making ‘Daily Show’ appearance

A Columbus man who has spent most of his life collecting ice in the tropics will be featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show next week.  But make no mistake.  Ohio State Professor Lonnie Thompson’s career has been anything but a joke.

The West Virginia native (who has been described on multiple occasions as “the real life Indiana Jones”) came to OSU more than 50 years ago to study coal geology but was quickly tapped to conduct research into polar studies.  He has since led ice core drilling expeditions to mountaintop glaciers in Peru, Tanzania, Bolivia … 16 countries in all.

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With evidence contained in the four-and-a-half miles of ice he has recovered, Thompson and his wife and research partner Ellen Mosley-Thompson helped prove that human-caused climate change is real.  Today, that proof is safely stored in giant freezers at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center on OSU’s West Campus.

Dr. Lonnie Thompson is scheduled to appear on The Daily Show Thursday night, December 11, at 11 p.m., and keep a look out for a feature on the OSU researcher in the January issue of (614) Magazine as well.

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