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Study Reveals Alarming Trend:

Decline in Water Storage in the Indus Basin

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Recent Rise in West Antarctic Ice Shelf Melting Linked to Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

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Celebrate Earth Day

with the Byrd Center

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AI for Biodiversity:

Bridging Global Knowledge Gaps

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Ammonia Emissions:

Historical Insights from Ice-Core Analysis in Southeastern Europe

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A Novel Use of AI in Filling the Data Gap

Enhancing GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis

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Accelerating Ice Flow and Climate Change:

Catalysts for Rapid Crevasse Expansion in Greenland

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Empowering Early Career Researchers

in Advanced Earth System Modeling

Polar Libraries Colloquy

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May 31, 2025

Early Encounters with Penguins

5:00 pm
Clintonville Books, 3286 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43202

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June 2 - June 6, 2025

2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop

8:00 am
Institute of Ocean Sciences and Pacific Geoscience Centre, located near Sidney, British Columbia, Canada & Virtual

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June 10, 2025

EPN Field Trip: Sustainability in Growth at the New Albany International Business Park

11:00 am
Brick House Blue (7775 Walton Pkwy, New Albany, Ohio 43054)

Portrait of Dr. Brian Murray

June 11, 2025

AEDE Economic Outlook and Policy Webinar Series

12:00 pm
Virtual

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May 30, 2025

Glacier Collapse in Swiss Alps Highlights Dangers of Climate-Driven Instability

On May 28, 2025, a catastrophic landslide obliterated approximately 90% of the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley. The disaster was triggered by the collapse of the Birch…

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May 27, 2025

Ohio State Researchers Help Advance Measurement of Nanoparticles and Microparticles Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Technology

A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…

Melisa Diaz

May 22, 2025

Byrd Center Principal Investigator Melisa Diaz Named a 2025–2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

The Ohio State University’s Byrd Center is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz, a faculty member in the School of Earth Sciences and principal investigator of the Polar and…

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May 20, 2025

Urbint Acquires StormImpact to Help Utilities Strengthen Resiliency Against Extreme Weather

The Ohio State University startup weather analytics company StormImpact, co-founded by Byrd Center Principal Investigator and Professor Steven Quiring (Geography), was recently acquired by…