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Undergraduate Grace Davis Awarded Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Position

Grace Davis, a third-year microbiology student was recently selected for the Ohio State's Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, which will support her project, “Microbial…

Three-panel figure: (a) map of the Tibetan Plateau showing westerlies (blue arrows) and Indian summer monsoon (red arrows) with highlighted study regions; (b) regional map with labeled sites and boxes; (c) satellite image marking AWS1 and AWS2 locations.

High temperatures over northeastern India linked to extreme glacier mass loss on the south-central Tibetan Plateau

Meilin Zhu of the Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment at Lanzhou University, together with Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Senior…

A collage of four weather balloons in the Antarctic at different times of day. Check caption for info.

Enhanced winter observations improve weather forecasting over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

David Bromwich, professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University and principal investigator with the Polar Meteorology Group at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and…

Close-up of Alex Michaud smilingwearing a colorful knit hat and a black jacket, with a blurred icy outdoor background.

Professor Alex Michaud receives Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award

SES Assistant Professor Alex Michaud is a recipient of the 2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. The annual honor is given by Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry in the…

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Art from and inspired by polar expeditions shines at Ohio State

Laura Kissel, polar archivist for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program at The Ohio State University, curated Polar Expressions: Finding Beauty in the Coldest Regions on…

Four false-color satellite images (a–d) of blue lakes outlined in white, with red lines marking shoreline changes; varying shapes include a large lake, a narrow channel, an elongated lake, and a smaller lake with a nearby circular feature, each with a 1–3 km scale bar.

New study delivers first global inventory of lake-terminating glaciers

Stanislav Kutuzov, affiliated with The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, is a co-author on a new paper…

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…

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…

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…