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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…
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…
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…
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…
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:
OSU Professor described as ‘the real life Indiana Jones’ making ‘Daily Show’ appearance
A Columbus man who has spent most of his life collecting ice in the tropics will be featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show next week. But make no mistake. Ohio State Professor Lonnie…
What do ice cores tells us about climate change?
BBC World Service’s The Climate Question—stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that, spotlights how ice cores from Antarctica to Peru’s…
Ian Howat Transitioning to New Role at Ohio State
The Byrd Center extends sincere thanks to Ian Howat for his leadership and guidance of the Byrd Center since 2018 and looks forward to continuing to support him in his role as a Byrd Principal…