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Steven Quiring featured on the Midwest Moxie podcast
Midwest Moxie's executive producer is Audrey Nowakowski. Steven Quiring knew his technology solved a problem for utilities. And based on projects he’d been involved in, he knew they’d pay for it. But…
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 expedition…
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 pursuing studies in…
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…
Launching the documentary Canary in Peru and Building Momentum for Quelccaya National Park
The Ohio State University Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, Senior Research Scientist Lonnie Thompson recently returned from a three-week intensive trip to Peru, where he delivered…
Beyond the Last Interglacial: 4.5 Million Years of Global Sea Level
A new study led by Oregon State University paleoclimatologist Peter U. Clark reports that global sea level fluctuated far more dramatically—and more frequently—throughout the last ice age than…
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,…
Improving Climate Models: New Study Quantifies Cloud and Radiation Biases Over the Southern Ocean
A new international study has provided essential insights into how clouds interact with radiation over the Southern Ocean, a key factor in Antarctic weather and climate dynamics and global…
Securing Pamir Ice Memory: Two Deep Cores Recovered at Kon Chukurbashi
An international team under the Swiss Polar Institute's PAMIR Flagship Initiative has completed a five-week, high-altitude drilling campaign on the Kon Chukurbashi Ice Cap in Tajikistan's Pamir…