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Flyer for a virtual panel on Latin America in the Antarctic, with event details for March 30, 2026, and a hand‑drawn sketch of a ship, sun, and Antarctic scene at the top.
Mon, March 30, 2026
Latin America in the Antarctic: History and Politics between the Second World War and the Antarctic Treaty, 1945-1959
1:30 pm
Online (Virtual)
Event poster for the 2026 Robinson Lecture featuring Dr. Paul Markowski of Pennsylvania State University, presenting “How to Make a Tornado: Ideas Emerging from Decades of Theory, Simulation, and Field Observations.” The poster includes a headshot of the speaker and event details from the Department of Geography and Geography Graduate Organization.
Fri, April 3, 2026
Geography Speaker Series Presents: Paul Markowski
3:30 pm
Colloquia Room 340 18th Avenue Library
Promotional graphic for Science Sundays featuring Aaron Wilson presenting “Climate By Any Other Name,” with a portrait of Wilson wearing glasses, a suit, and a yellow boutonniere.
Sun, April 5, 2026
Science Sundays: "Climate by any other name"
3:00 pm
Ohio Union U.S. Bank Conference Theater
Reconstructing biosphere-climate coupling from tree-ring stable isotopes
Wed, April 8, 2026
Seminar with Dr. Hannah Dion-Kirschner
3:00 pm
Byrd Climate and Polar Research Center, Room 176

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New study delivers first global inventory of lake-terminating glaciers Global study maps lake-terminating glaciers worldwide First global inventory shows lake-terminating glaciers cover an outsized share of glacier area For a Byrd or SES news/social post

A world map showing river storage variability across 61 basins, shaded from light to dark blue to indicate increasing variability. South America’s northern basin shows the highest values. Gray shading marks areas not assessed, including Antarctica.

SWOT Wide‑Swath Altimetry Reveals Global River Bank Morphology and Storage Variability

The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES) Professor and Interim Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Michael Durand and his team have been published in Nature for…

A map of North America showing bird‑decline intensity, with red and orange clusters in the U.S. Midwest and lighter yellow and green areas elsewhere.

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture

Marta Jarzyna, associate professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and her colleagues have published new…

Four map panels of Greenland show modeled (1) number of temperate beds and temperature standard deviation at the ice base, 37 m depth, and 227 m depth; blue is lower and red is higher (K).

CryoRad from sea ice to ocean salinity, a new microwave approach could boost polar observations

Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author. Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others. Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar Regions The work of…

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