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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…
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…
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…
Through the Lenses of Byrd Members: Photo Contest Winners
The Byrd Center hosted a photo contest for members, and members responded, submitting photos climbing glaciers, drilling ice cores, storm chasing, and more. 2025 contest winners included: Stanislav…
Satellite images confirm the existence of a rare high-elevation frozen pond in the Transantarctic Mountains.
The Ohio State team has documented a small, high-elevation pond in Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains that appears to have remained frozen for decades. The team reports that the pond sits on the…
Collaborative Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop Held in Bangkok
The Ohio State University Indus Basin Project team includes Professor Nicholas Breyfogle (Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center), Fazlul Haq (Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center),…
New Ice-Core Method uses Refractory Residual to Trace Arctic Dust
The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES), Assistant Professor Emilie Beaudon, co-authored a study proposing a new dust proxy in an Arctic ice core. A principal investigator at the…
The ANET-POLENET field season 2025-2026
Today, the team completed decommissioning of GNSS site PECE. After nearly 25 years of collecting data crucial to understanding ice sheet stability and Antarctica’s vital role in global climate and…
SES a part of newly selected NASA ICAR to study Ocean Worlds
The Ohio State University’s School of Earth Sciences is proud to announce that Dr. Melisa Diaz, SES faculty member and polar geochemistry expert, will serve as co-lead of the Cryosphere Domain for…