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The Impact on Radiative Forcing: Biomass Burning Leads to Black Carbon Deposition on Andean Glaciers

In a recent collaborative study published in Environmental Research Letters from IOP Science, a team of researchers investigated the impact of black carbon (BC) deposition on the melting of Andean…

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Three Selected as 2023 Distinguished University Professors

This spring, three faculty members were honored as Distinguished University Professors. Each year, The Ohio State University awards this permanent honorific title to no more than three tenure-…

Jamey Stutz

Welcome to Jamey Stutz!

We are pleased to welcome Jamey Stutz to the Byrd Center where he will be a Research Scientist in the Polar Rock Repository.

Jamey is a glacial geologist specializing in…

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The Adventures of the Soaring Penguin

For World Penguin day, we are honoring a one of a kind penguin... the Soaring Penguin! 

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It is the Soaring…

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A Once-Stable Glacier in Greenland Is Now Rapidly Disappearing Due to Warming Atlantic Waters

Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, previously stable for decades, is now retreating at an unprecedented rate, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Communications. The rapid…

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YOPP-SH: The Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere continues to 2024

The Polar Prediction Project (PPP), a decade-long initiative by the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), ended on December 31, 2022. The…

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What is Driving Hydrogen Isotopes in Monsoonal Precipitation Across the Bay of Bengal?

A recent study by lead author Jingyi Zhang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published in Geophysical Research Letters, analyzed the stable hydrogen isotope records in…

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Forest Growing Season Has Increased by a Month in the Eastern U.S. over the Past Century

A new study has found that the growing period of hardwood forests in eastern North America has increased by an average of one month over the past century due to rising temperatures. Researchers…

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Byrd Center Student Assistant Published in Ohio State Alumni Magazine

 

Savannah Stearmer is a student assistant at the Byrd Center and a senior majoring in English with a concentration in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy, whose work was recently…