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Researchers Predict Melting Glaciers May Threaten Future Water Security
Glaciers in High Mountain Asia — a region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges — are shrinking rapidly, endangering water resources for millions of people…
2025 Lois M. Jones Awardee
The Lois M. Jones Award for Science Access, Engagement and Communication honors Lois M. Jones (1935-2000), a geochemist from The Ohio State University who led the first all-woman research…
2025 Rick Toracinta Endowed Graduate Scholarship Awardee
The Rick Toracinta Endowed Graduate Scholarship honors Dr. Richard (Rick) Toracinta and is awarded biennially to an outstanding graduate student at The Ohio State University…
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…
New Ohio Mesonet expands weather data access, boosts agricultural resilience
COLUMBUS, Ohio — When the weather turns, farmers aren’t the only ones who need to know what’s happening on the ground.
In some of Ohio’s most rural counties — especially across the northwest…
At the top of the world, lead pollution reaches even pristine glaciers
A new study reveals that human activities have polluted some of the Earth’s most isolated areas. By analyzing ice cores from the Guliya ice cap in Tibet, researchers found clear shifts in lead…
The European Space Agency Greenlights CryoRad, an Innovative Earth Explorer mission concept in Advancing Earth Observation
Byrd Center Researchers Collaborate Globally on Groundbreaking Cryosphere Research
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the selection of CryoRad as one of four mission ideas for its…
Assessing the Thickness of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Concurrent Airborne Altimetry and Ice Measurements Reveal Thinner Profiles Than Expected
Recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology is the first large-scale study of its kind focusing on the accuracy of estimating the thickness and mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves, which…
StormImpact, a Pioneering Startup, is Helping Power Companies Mitigate Weather-Related Disruption
StormImpact is a pioneering startup co-founded by Steven Quiring, Byrd Center principal investigator and professor in The Ohio State University's Department of Geography, Senior Researcher Brent…