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Byrd Center Principal Investigator Melisa Diaz Named a 2025–2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
The Ohio State University’s Byrd Center is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz, a faculty member in the School of Earth Sciences and principal investigator of the Polar and…
Urbint Acquires StormImpact to Help Utilities Strengthen Resiliency Against Extreme Weather
The Ohio State University startup weather analytics company StormImpact, co-founded by Byrd Center Principal Investigator and Professor Steven Quiring (Geography), was recently acquired by Urbint,…
Undergraduate Researchers Awarded Grants to Study Microorganisms from Unique Ice Environments
Congratulations to Rylin Lofton and Wyatt Walker, both undergraduate researchers in the Polar Geomicrobiology Group, for being awarded grants to support their research projects exploring the role…
Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support
In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”
New Award to Study Life in Glaciers
Congratulations to Byrd Center Principal Investigators, Assistant Professors Alex Michaud and Emilie Beaudon (Earth Sciences), on receiving a one-year grant from the College of Arts and Sciences…
OSU Announces Transition to Anthony Travel as New Travel Management Partner Starting July 1
Beginning July 1, 2025, The Ohio State University will partner with Anthony Travel as its new Travel Management Company for employee business travel.
This change marks the end of the…
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2024
A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…
As wildfires intensify, prolonged exposure to pollution linked to premature death
Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered that wildfire smoke significantly reduces life expectancy, while also diminishing the health benefits of local greenspaces. Greenspaces,…
Declines in plant resilience threaten carbon storage in the Arctic
Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region’s vegetation is losing the ability to recover from climate shocks, suggests a…