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Researchers in winter gear are delivered supplies on snow via helicopter
December 12, 2019

Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away

The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found.

The glaciers…

Byrd Center Ice Core Freezer
December 6, 2019

Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio

Doppler10 Meteorologist Drew Anderson visited the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to "Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio."

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People having a discussion at a round table
November 22, 2019

Polar Education Just Got Cooler

The Education and Outreach Group of the Byrd Center at The Ohio State University will co-lead Polar Literacy: A Model for Youth Engagement and Learning, an NSF-funded Advancing Informal STEM…

A sailboat sails past a large iceberg
November 21, 2019

How a warming world may alter functions of the oceans' organisms

Scientists identify characteristics of tiny sea life influenced by water temperature

New research takes scientists a step closer to identifying important characteristics of the communities…

Byrd Center Seminar
November 15, 2019

Thompsons inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography, and Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences,…

Byrd Center
November 13, 2019

Geography of Sustainable Energy Course offered in SP 2020!

Geography of Sustainable Energy

 

Spatiotemporal scaling of avian diversity change
November 1, 2019

Spatiotemporal scaling of avian diversity change

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Principal Investigator, Marta Jarzyna

PROJECT ABSTRACT…

Li Zhiying
October 31, 2019

Congratulations to Zhiying Li, 2019 Rick Toracinta Scholarship Recipient

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Congratulations to Zhiying Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, 2019 Rick Toracinta Scholarship Recipient.

Zhiying’s dissertation work focuses on relative importance…

Eroded embankment with a man walking along the river
October 28, 2019

Climate change lessons from Bangladesh's disappearing farms

Bangladesh, a country of 165 million in southern Asia, can teach people across the world a lot about how everything from climate to food to migration to economics is intertwined,…