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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

Ice & Aspire, May 22, 2025, 5:30 PM

Polar Libraries Colloquy

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Upcoming Events

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May 22 - May 23, 2025

European Polar Board OCEAN ICE Webinar Series

8:00 am
Virtual

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May 22, 2025

Freshwater Science: Updating NOAA’s Lake Erie Cyanobacteria Satellite Remote Sensing Time Series

12:00 pm
Virtual

May 22, 2025

Ice & Aspire

5:30 pm
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Scott Hall, 1090 Carmack Rd.

Mendenhall lab

May 23, 2025

Career Conversation and Research Talk with SES Alum Dr. Corey Wallace

11:30 am
Mendenhall Laboratory Room 291

Recent News

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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…

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May 15, 2025

New Hybrid Forecasting Approach Significantly Improves El Niño Predictions

A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events,…

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May 7, 2025

Undergraduate Researchers Awarded Grants to Study Microorganisms from Unique Ice Environments

Congratulations to Rylin Lofton and Wyatt Walker, both undergraduate researchers in the Polar Geomicrobiology Group, for being awarded grants to support their research projects exploring the role…

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April 28, 2025

Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to…