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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-track…
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 Antarctic Science…
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 Penguin Hot Air Balloon! The Soaring Penguin Hot Air…
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…
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…
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 precipitation …
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…
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 published in…
U.S. Birds' Eastern, Western Behavior Patterns Are Polar Opposites
In a recent study, scientists at The Ohio State University analyzed avian biodiversity changes across the continental United States over the period of a year and produced what could be…