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Garry McKenzie & Henry Brecher Scholarship Recipients

Chance Carafice is a dual major…

Dr. Aaron Wilson to lead National Institute of Food and Agriculture research project

Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center Scientist and OSU Extension Climate Specialist Aaron Wilson, in collaboration with Central State, University of Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Purdue, have…

Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson are the recipients of the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Lonnie Thompson for receiving the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change from the BBVA Foundation!

Details and BBVA press…

Ice sages

Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson are two of the world’s most revered paleoclimatologists, and their careers at Ohio State have grown in tandem with humans’ understanding of climate change…

Welcome to Dr. Fazlul Haq, 2021 Byrd Post Doctoral Scholar 

Dr. Haq is on a sabbatical from his position in the Department of Geography at Government College University Faisalabad.

He received his PhD in 2016 and…

October 2021 was the warmest October on record (1895-2021) for Ohio

The State Climate Office of Ohio breaks down the October monthly climate summary at climate.osu.edu

Congratulations to Oguz Demir

Congratulations to Oguz Demir for successfully defending his dissertation, "Remote Sensing of Sea Ice with Wideband Microwave Radiometry". To collect data, Oguz participated in the MOSAiC…

Toracinta Scholarship Winner Announcement: Alyssa Reynolds

Congratulations to Alyssa Reynolds, M.S. Candidate, Department of Geography, and 2021 Rick Toracinta Scholarship Recipient. Her research project is entitled, "Two Case Studies of Recent EF-4…

OSU Lantern - Polar Predicament: Byrd Freezers in need of renovation

The freezers that have been active within the Byrd Center for over 30 years are beginning to show their age and fall into disrepair.