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Byrd Center Featured in New Yorker: Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center was recently featured in a New Yorker article exploring how climate change is transforming microbial life across the planet. In “Our Warming Planet…
Arriana Casanova: Garry McKenzie & Henry Brecher Scholarship Recipient
Arriana Casanova, a 2026 graduate who earned her bachelor’s degree in Astronomy and Earth Sciences, was one of nine recipients of the 2025 Garry McKenzie and Henry Brecher Endowed Undergraduate…
Stanislav Kutuzov et al. Characterize Over Two Million Atmospheric Particles in Antarctic Ice to Reconstruct Past Dust Sources
Stanislav Kutuzov and his colleagues recently published “Geochemical characterization of millions of individual atmospheric particles entrapped in Antarctic ice across the last glacial…
Ellen Mosley-Thompson Named One of Columbus Monthly’s 2026 Inspiring Women
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is proud to share that Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita and senior research scientist, has been named one of Columbus…
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PhD Student H Rainak Khan Real Awarded at OSU Hayes Research Forum and Graduate Research Proposal Competition
PhD student H Rainak Khan Real was recently awarded 2nd place at the OSU Hayes Research Forum for his presentation "From Microns to Meters: Using Remote Sensing to Understand the Spatial…
Researchers Predict Melting Glaciers May Threaten Future Water Security
Glaciers in High Mountain Asia — a region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges — are shrinking rapidly, endangering water resources for millions of people…
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…
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…