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How "Viral Dark Matter" May Help Mitigate Climate Change
Matthew Sullivan, Professor at The Ohio State University Department of Microbiology and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering and a Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center…
Climate Change is Just Getting Warmed up
Cincinnati Magazine recently published a news article titled Climate Change is Just Getting Warmed up in which Bryan Mark, State Climatologist and Professor of Geography and Byrd Center…
Patagonia Ice Fields are Vulnerable to El Niño Events
Demián Gómez, Assistant Professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) and Byrd Center researcher at The Ohio State University, recently co-authored a report published in the journal…
Climate Change: Rise in Sea Levels and Temperatures Lead to Dangerous Salinity
This month, YaleEnvironment360 published an article titled Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity, in which the effects of climate change are identified as the potential…
Large-scale Ocean Sanctuaries Could Protect Coral Reefs from Climate Change
One of the many adverse effects of climate change is the warming of the oceans, leading to more frequent coral bleaching events around the world. Andrea Grottoli, professor of Earth Sciences…
Fluid Earth: Open-source Visualization of Weather and Climate Data
Fluid Earth (FE) is a web visualization tool that allows users to view evolving weather and climate patterns and was developed by the Byrd Center. A recently published GIS Lounge article entitled…
Columbus Selected to Participate in NOAA's National Heat-Mapping Campaign
Columbus was selected as one of the participants in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s heat-mapping campaign in an effort to study the heat island effect of urban communities…
Ocean Water Samples Yield Treasure Trove of RNA Virus Data
Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data about RNA viruses, expanding ecological research possibilities and reshaping our understanding of how these…
Agriculture Plays Key Role in Limiting Climate Change
The latest report released by the U.N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summarizes new findings on climate change and outlines possible solutions. …