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A street view image of green traffic lights, with sidewalk, trees, buildings, bus and cars on the left, building straight ahead and green grass median and park, sidewalks and trees and people walking
August 17, 2022

Volunteers Participate in National Heat-Mapping Campaign to Collect Data on Columbus' Urban Heat Island

Last week Byrd Center staff members Geddy Davis, program coordinator, weather and climate services, and Karina Peggau, education and outreach program coordinator, participated in the National…

Snow covered, some treed and some brown mountains at a distance with dark cloud at the top but white clouds right about the mountains and dark mountains in the foreground.
August 1, 2022

Study Cautions Influence of Inverse Altitude Effect When Using Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry

A new study published last week in Nature Communications titled Inverse Altitude Effect disputes the Theoretical Foundation of Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry sheds light on the Interpretation of…

Snow-capped mountain range with trees at foothills and white clouds in a blue sky.
June 24, 2022

Water Imbalance Created in Tibetan Plateau as a Result of Climate Change Will Lead to Conflict

In a recent interview with Ohio State News Science Journalist Tatyana Woodall, Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Center Senior Research Scientist and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State…

Landscape Scenery of Denali in Alaska with fiend and stream
April 22, 2022

A Conversation with Dr. Michael Durand about his NASA funded SnowEx Fieldwork in Alaska

In March, Professor Michael Durand traveled to Alaska for snow fieldwork.  He joined a group of a dozen researchers from around the country, for a scouting trip to support a much larger community…

Tal Shutkin
April 20, 2022

Congratulations Tal!

 Congratulations to Tal Shutkin for successfully defending his master's thesis entitled, "Multi-Temporal Glacier-Climate Interactions in Peru’s Queshque Valley (~10S): Modeling Contemporary…

Snow covered mountains and water
April 1, 2022

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 featured…

NIFA Project Collaboration diagram
January 27, 2022

Dr. Aaron Wilson to lead National Institute of Food and Agriculture research project

Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center Scientist and OSU Extension Climate Specialist Aaron Wilson, in collaboration with Central State, University of Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Purdue, have…

dawn
November 8, 2021

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.

 

Kira Harris on a tree log
July 8, 2020

Kira Harris Receives Henry Brecher Technical Achievement Award

Congratulations to Byrd Center intern and Class of 2020 graduate Kira Harris for receiving this year's Henry Brecher Technical Achievement Award! 

This award is named in honor of…