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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…
Connecting Youth Using Arctic Mystery-Themed Kits
A recent study, Connecting Youth Using Arctic Mystery-Themed Kits, was published online in the Journal of STEM Outreach. The lead author, Education and Outreach Program…
Deep learning models track river extents at sub-meter resolutions
Earth’s surface water, such as river flow paths and inundated floodplains, evolves spatially over time. Where and how much surface water is present is critical for evaluating droughts, floods, and…
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…
The Imbalance of the Asian Water Tower
Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Center Senior Scientist, Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University, co-chair of Third Pole Environment and honorary member at the Institute of…
Women Pioneers of Antarctica
Last month the Smithsonian Magazine featured an article titled "Ten Pioneering Women of Antarctica and the Places Named for Them" in honor of Women's History month. One of the pioneers…
Byrd Center's Role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, which cited at least 30 papers…
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change
A consensus statement was recently published in Nature warning humanity about climate change from the perspective of microorganisms. Two Byrd Center members, Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan,…
Byrd Center member Dr. Virginia Rich (Microbiology) recently led a team in publishing the discovery of a novel phylum living in Arctic permafrost
This new lineage - dubbed Cryosericota, ‘cryo’ for cold and ‘sericota’ for its sister phylum, Caldiserica, for which it was initially mistaken - dominated the microbiome of the old, frozen…