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Snow Storm at Guliya ice cap drill site in 2015. Flat snow covered vista with grey clouds with some sunlight and blue skies at a distance illuminating a series of snow covered mountain peaks while in the foreground on the right side of the image there is an orange gray bubble tent with three people two working on something and one standing posing with a red coat

February 8, 2023

Opposite Mass Balance Variations Between Glaciers in Western Tibet and the Western Tien Shan

Recent research published in Global and Planetary Change studied the mass balance variations between glaciers situated in western Tibet and western Tien Shan during the ablation season, from June…

February 6, 2023

The Environmental Impact and Management of Steel Corrosion

A new study led by Ohio State alum Mariano Iannuzzi, professor of materials and corrosion science at Curtin University, and co-author Gerald Frankel, professor in the Department of Materials…

Satellite image taken from space showing a large hurricane

January 30, 2023

Detecting Extreme Climate Event Impacts Using Remote Sensing Data in Deep Machine Learning Paradigms

C.K. Shum, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University and a Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center, co-authored a study…

A Road Closed sign with a sandbag on it blocking a flooded road.

January 30, 2023

Ongoing and Future Projected Intensification of Wet and Dry Extremes in North America

Kyungmin (Kay) Sung, a postdoctoral scholar at Stagge Hydrology Lab at The Ohio State University is the lead author of a study titled Ongoing and Future Projected…

A USGS map of California's Central Valley showing topography and rivers with colors and names with the pacific ocean on one side in blue and Nevada in tan on the other side.

January 20, 2023

Using Satellite Altimetry Data to Monitor Groundwater Depletion Through Land Subsidence in California's Central Valley

Xuechen Yang, a graduate student in The School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, is the lead author of a study using satellite altimetry data from California's Central Valley…

An illustration of CNES showing a gold SWOT satellite in orbit above land of water and vegetation with sunlight glinting off the water and one array of solar panels, as well as both blue tile KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.

January 13, 2023

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Satellite to Collect Data on Over 90% of the Water on Earth's Surface

On December 16, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying with it the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft…

Map of India in green with some outline of blue and some yellow at the top, with a legend for colors included in the map showing land use and land cover classification January 2022

January 12, 2023

Improving Forest Sustainability in Pan-India

Last month, Ying Zuo, a graduate student in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, presented a research poster at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU’s) annual meeting…

Three rasterized heat maps of Columbus side by side in a row highlighted with red orange blue hues with the far left map having a dark red distribution in the middle while the middle map has less and the far right map had an orangish center. all maps have blue surrounding and green and brown representing vegetation and land. The title under the maps are Morning Temperatures:52.8-64.2F middle title is Afternoon Temperatures: 74.6-84.5F and far right title is Evening Temperatures: 68.2-81.1F

December 16, 2022

The City of Columbus Releases Results of its Urban Heat Mapping

This past summer, Geddy Davis, program coordinator, weather and climate services, and Karina Peggau, education and outreach program coordinator at…

December 14, 2022

Ohio State's Carbon Emissions Have Dropped by 30% Since 2015

Ohio State News recently reported on The Ohio State University's efforts and progress toward reducing its carbon footprint stemming from sustainability goals set in 2015. To date, the university…

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