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January 30, 2023

Detecting Extreme Climate Event Impacts Using Remote Sensing Data in Deep Machine Learning Paradigms

C.K. Shum, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University and a Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center, co-authored a study…

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January 30, 2023

Ongoing and Future Projected Intensification of Wet and Dry Extremes in North America​

 

Kyungmin (Kay) Sung, a postdoctoral scholar at Stagge Hydrology Lab at The Ohio State University is the lead author of a study titled Ongoing and Future Projected…

A USGS map of California's Central Valley showing topography and rivers with colors and names with the pacific ocean on one side in blue and Nevada in tan on the other side.
January 20, 2023

Using Satellite Altimetry Data to Monitor Groundwater Depletion Through Land Subsidence in California's Central Valley

Xuechen Yang, a graduate student in The School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, is the lead author of a study using satellite altimetry data from California's Central Valley…

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January 19, 2023

Welcome to Jennifer Kashani Motlagh!

This month, Jennifer Kashani Motlagh joined the Byrd Center team as our Webmaster and Communication Specialist. She shares this position with The Ohio State University's Global Water Institute (…

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January 18, 2023

2022 McKenzie-Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to all 6 of this year's Garry McKenzie & Henry Brecher Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship recipients

Abby Dietrich is a Chemical Engineering student and an Undergraduate…

An illustration of CNES showing a gold SWOT satellite in orbit above land of water and vegetation with sunlight glinting off the water and one array of solar panels, as well as both blue tile KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.
January 13, 2023

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite to Collect Data on Over 90% of the Water on Earth's Surface

On December 16, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying with it the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft…

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January 12, 2023

Improving Forest Sustainability in Pan-India

Last month, Ying Zuo, a graduate student in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, presented a research poster at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU’s) annual meeting…

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January 10, 2023

Cleaning Up Coal Mine Drainage and Producing Rare Earth Elements in the Process

Jeff Bielicki, associate professor in civil environmental and geodetic engineering and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, co-authored a study published in the…

An image of a screen showing the title of virtual Rock Box with 4 white buttons spaced out underneath it with light grey background . White boxes have writing Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic and fossil. Underneath is a dark grey background with Igneous(9) written in white text as if selected then under that with three rocks each in it's own square white box and a play button on each, showing it is an interactive page.
December 20, 2022

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were scanned using…