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Ice Cream Social flyer
Thu, September 10, 2026
Event Start Time: 4:00 pm
Event Location: Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Rd, West Campus Room 177
NYC Climate Week 2026 Flyer
Wed, September 23, 2026
Event Start Time: 6:00 pm
Event Location: The Live Room at Piano's
Flyer for Polar Research Community meeting on October 1, 2026, at Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH
Thu, October 1, 2026
Event Start Time: 9:45 am
Event Location: The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
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Thu, October 1 - Sat, October 3, 2026
Event Start Time: 5:00 pm
Event Location: Oregon State University

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Damaged homes, trees, and yards in Indian Lake after a tornado swept through in 2024.

Aaron Wilson Discusses Ohio’s Climate Future in Crain’s Cleveland Business

Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Principal Investigator and State Climatologist of Ohio Aaron Wilson recently contributed to Crain’s Cleveland Business coverage examining…

McKenzie Brecher Scholarship Flyer

McKenzie-Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Open for Applications

Undergraduate students working for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, are encouraged to apply for research support from the G. McKenzie & H. Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. The…

A group of researchers hiking the summit of Nevado Huascarán surrounded by snowy mountains.

Kara Lamantia confirms that tropical regions are a historic source of methane

Kara Lamantia and her colleagues recently published research in Nature using ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the first global record of historical tropical methane. The…

Line graphs showing mineral dust concentrations in Huascarán ice cores from 1960–2019. Dust deposition increases over time, with the largest particles contributing most of the dust mass.

Austin Weber et al. investigate the influence of mineral dust on glacial albedo in the tropical Andes

Austin Weber and his colleagues recently published “On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)” in Journal of Geophysical…