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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

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Winter Campaigns During YOPP-SH:

Enhancing Atmospheric Predictability Over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica

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Insights from the SWOT Mission:

Revealing Breakthroughs in Global Water Monitoring

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Greenland's Hidden Reservoirs:

Bedrock Shifts Uncover Summer Meltwater

West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.

West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier:

Accelerated Thinning and Retreat Driven by Ice-Shelf Channel Intersections at Grounding Zones

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Antarctica's Priestley Glacier:

Revealing Subglacial Water Dynamics Using Microwave Sensing

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Ohio Weather & Climate Course

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Voices of Excellence

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This Week’s Highlighted Events

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79th Bownocker Lecture: Public Lecture "The Earthquake Problem." March 20, 2025, 8:00PM - 10:00PM EDT, Sullivant Hall Room 220 & Virtual.

Glaciers and loss and damage in the Third Pole Environment- Part of the official program for the celebration of the first World Day for Glacier and World Water Day! March 21, 2025, 11:00AM - 12:30PM EDT, Room VI, UNESCO HQ, Paris, and Via Zoom.

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The Robinson Lecture: Science and Solutions for a Warming World with Kim Cobb Professor, Brown University, March 21, 2025, 3:30PM - 5:00PM EDT, In-person, Colloquia Rm 340, 3rd Floor, 18th Avenue Library.

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February 18 - March 28, 2025

Weather, Climate, and Climate Change for Ohio’s Environmental and Natural Resources Professionals and Volunteers

self-paced Course, Online

March 20 - March 28, 2025

The 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) Process (2022 - 2026)

Boulder, Colorado, USA

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March 20 - March 21, 2025

1st World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day

Varies

March 20 - March 28, 2025

Artic Science Summit Week 2025

Boulder, Colorado, USA

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March 15, 2025

Celebrating the 2025 Hayes Advanced Research Forum Winners

The 39th annual Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum took place on Friday, February 28, 2025, at The Ohio State University's Ohio Union. It brought together graduate students and postdoctoral…

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March 12, 2025

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

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, led by Pranab Deb and co-authored by David Bromwich, Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center's Polar Meteorology Group,…

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March 7, 2025

New Method Improves Ocean Age Estimations, Challenges Previous Assumptions About Last Glacial Maximum

An important new study published in Nature's NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science introduces a novel technique for estimating the true age of deep ocean water. Ms. Jinbo Du, a former…

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March 6, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Paves the Way to Bridge Global Biodiversity Knowledge Gaps

A recent review by a group of international researchers published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical…