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Glacier Ice Samples Act as Records of Climate Change’s Impact on Earth

PBS Newshour Story featuring Dr. Lonnie Thompson, Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Dr. Emilie Beaudon, and the ice core storage facility.

 

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Health and Hurricanes: Experts Examine Climate Change's Impact on Public Health

"There's no doubt right here in Ohio we're wetter and warmer, and that's going to have impacts on everything in society," says Aaron Wilson, Byrd Center research scientist and climate specialist…

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Nova | Arctic Drift

Byrd Center Research Scientists, Joel Johnson and Ken Jezek, as well as Oguz Demir, a graduate student in the electrical and computer engineering at OSU, took part in Multidisciplinary…

Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, recipients of the 50th and 51st Mendel Medals.

Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Lonnie Thompson Awarded The Mendel Medal

Congratulations to the Byrd Center's Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Lonnie Thompson on being awarded Villanova University’s Mendel Medal - given to outstanding contemporary scientists in…

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Glacial ice will likely hold records of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say

Studies show evidence of previous pandemics, disasters throughout history

Ice from glaciers around the world, undisturbed for centuries, show changes in how societies functioned…

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Byrd Center and Global Water Institute to tackle climate and water justice

The Byrd Center teams up with the Global Water Institute team to help vulnerable communities impacted by climate and water inequities.

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Ohio State climate experts help farmers by studying extreme weather risks

A USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture project aims to help farmers adapt to extreme weather events - led Dr. Robyn Wilson in OSU's School of Environment and Natural Resources, with…

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Ohio State partners with 12 institutions on NSF-supported sci-tech center to study ocean chemical-microbe network and climate change

Professor of microbiology Matthew Sullivan is leading Ohio State’s partnership on a new research center supported by the National Science Foundation. The Center for Chemical Currencies…

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The Perfect Storm: Increased Rainfall and Outdated Infrastructure Threaten Campus

Byrd Center Education and Outreach Director, Jason Cervenec, talks to The Lantern about how increasingly frequent and volatile extreme weather events make it difficult for cities to rely on the…