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What is drought?
March 31, 2021

What is a drought?

Byrd Center research scientist Dr. Aaron Wilson unpacks the complexity of droughts, and what to expect for the 2021 Ohio growing season.

Students make their own ice cores at the Byrd Center
March 23, 2021

Cold Curriculum for a Hot Topic

The Byrd Center's Education and Outreach Group was recently featured in EOS, Science News by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

How did the first all-woman scientific team from the United States come to work in Antarctica?
March 19, 2021

One giant leap for womankind: Women at the South Pole

In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating the first all-female Antarctic research expedition! In 1969 researchers from the Institute of Polar Studies (now called the Byrd Center) at…

Antarctic mountain range.
March 15, 2021

Antarctic peninsula likely to warm over next two decades

A new study by Dr. David Bromwich, Byrd Center researcher and head of the Polar Meteorology Research Group, shows that the Antarctic peninsula will likely experience increases in temperature and…

QED with Dr. B.
February 26, 2021

QED with Dr. B: Climate Science

Learn how we can better communicate with others about climate change. Tune in to watch Dr. Arron Wilson on WOSU's QED with Dr. B.

GWI aims to address the Navajo Nation’s most serious water needs.
February 23, 2021

Global Water Institute leads effort to improve water and food security with the Navajo Nation

GWI aims to address the Navajo Nation’s most serious water needs.

Ohio State Studies Greenland's Big Retreat
February 17, 2021

Ohio State Studies Greenland's Big Retreat

Columbus Monthly recently spoke with Byrd Center researchers about Greenland's melting glaciers and the broader implications of climate change, here in Columbus, Ohio.

Antarctica’s ice melt isn’t consistent, new analysis shows.
February 2, 2021

Antarctica’s ice melt isn’t consistent, new analysis shows

Sea-level predictions may need adjustment
Forrest Schoessow conducting research on a Peruvian glacier.
January 29, 2021

Congratulations to Forrest Schoessow on being named a 2021 Hydroinformatics Innovation Fellow

We would like to congratulate Forrest Schoessow for being named a 2021 Hydroinformatics Innovation Fellow by The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. for his…