News

Filter

a brown rocky ground with a boulder in the foreground and snow covered landscape in the background.

Cosmic Rays Reveal Earth's Geological Secrets and Climate Future

Advanced Dating Techniques Using Cosmic Rays Offer New Insights into Earth's Past and Present Environmental Challenges

In an article published earlier this month in The Conversation,…

Wes Haines

Byrd Center Alum Wes Haines to Be Honored as a 2024 College of Arts and Sciences Emerging Leader

Congratulations to Byrd Center alum Wes Haines, one of the 2024 Emerging Leader Awards recipients.

The Ohio State University's College of Arts and Sciences will honor an exceptional cohort…

The Byrd Center Holiday card: an image of a mountain covered with snow with trees and tents at the base under blue sky and white clouds with a bow at the top left edge of the framed image with garland at bottom, under the image.

Frozen in Time: The Eternal Silence of Mt. Tidd in Antarctica's Pirrit Hills!

This year, to commemorate the Polar Rock Repository's 20th anniversary,  we selected the image of Mt. Tidd in Antarctica's Pirrit Hills for our Season's Greetings. The image was contributed…

Snow covered ground from a plane with part of the plane in the right side of the image.

Study Shows Byrd Glacier's Accelerated Inland Thinning During the Genesis of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica

Precise dating of glacial deposits from Byrd Glacier's Lonewolf Nunataks shows that one of the world's largest glaciers thinned rapidly around 8,000 years ago as the Ross Ice Shelf formed, based…

Over 50,000 rock samples are housed on floor-to-ceiling shelves within the PRR.

Ohio State's Polar Rock Repository: Celebrating 20 Years of Polar Discoveries

The Polar Rock Repository (PRR) at The Ohio State University celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023. An article in Columbus Monthly's September 2023 issue highlights the repository's history and…

Jamey Stutz

Welcome to Jamey Stutz!

We are pleased to welcome Jamey Stutz to the Byrd Center where he will be a Research Scientist in the Polar Rock Repository.

Jamey is a glacial geologist specializing in…

2 images of a brown rock side by side from different angles

Antarctica, a Natural Laboratory for Archaeological Validity of Early Stone Tool Sites

A study titled Antarctica as a ‘natural laboratory’ for the critical assessment of the archaeological validity of early stone tool sites was recently published in the online Journal…

An image of a screen showing the title of virtual Rock Box with 4 white buttons spaced out underneath it with light grey background . White boxes have writing Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic and fossil. Underneath is a dark grey background with Igneous(9) written in white text as if selected then under that with three rocks each in it's own square white box and a play button on each, showing it is an interactive page.

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were…

Close-up of sedimentary rock showing distinct layers alongside a logo. The logo is a compass rose with a small set of mountains and two pickaxes at its center.

Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought

National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected…