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A USGS map of California's Central Valley showing topography and rivers with colors and names with the pacific ocean on one side in blue and Nevada in tan on the other side.

Using Satellite Altimetry Data to Monitor Groundwater Depletion Through Land Subsidence in California's Central Valley

Xuechen Yang, a graduate student in The School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, is the lead author of a study using satellite altimetry data from California's…

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Welcome to Jennifer Kashani Motlagh!

This month, Jennifer Kashani Motlagh joined the Byrd Center team as our Webmaster and Communication Specialist. She shares this position with The Ohio State University's Global Water Institute (…

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2022 McKenzie-Brecher Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to all 6 of this year's Garry McKenzie & Henry Brecher Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship recipients

Abby Dietrich is a Chemical Engineering student and an Undergraduate…

An illustration of CNES showing a gold SWOT satellite in orbit above land of water and vegetation with sunlight glinting off the water and one array of solar panels, as well as both blue tile KaRIn instrument antennas deployed.

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite to Collect Data on Over 90% of the Water on Earth's Surface

On December 16, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying with it the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT)…

Map of India in green with some outline of blue and some yellow at the top, with a legend for colors included in the map showing land use and land cover classification January 2022

Improving Forest Sustainability in Pan-India

Last month, Ying Zuo, a graduate student in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, presented a research poster at the American…

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Cleaning Up Coal Mine Drainage and Producing Rare Earth Elements in the Process

Jeff Bielicki, associate professor in civil environmental and geodetic engineering and the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, co-authored a study published in…

An image of a screen showing the title of virtual Rock Box with 4 white buttons spaced out underneath it with light grey background . White boxes have writing Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic and fossil. Underneath is a dark grey background with Igneous(9) written in white text as if selected then under that with three rocks each in it's own square white box and a play button on each, showing it is an interactive page.

A Low-Cost, User-Friendly Technology for Making Samples and Artifacts Accessible to Online Audiences

The pandemic precipitated the need for virtual access to science through technology and hence the creation of the Virtual Rock Box. Rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository were…

Three rasterized heat maps of Columbus side by side in a row highlighted with red orange blue hues with the far left map having a dark red distribution in the middle while the middle map has less and the far right map had an orangish center. all maps have blue surrounding and green and brown representing vegetation and land. The title under the maps are Morning Temperatures:52.8-64.2F middle title is Afternoon Temperatures: 74.6-84.5F and far right title is Evening Temperatures: 68.2-81.1F

The City of Columbus Releases Results of its Urban Heat Mapping

This past summer, Geddy Davis, program coordinator, weather and climate services, and Karina Peggau, education and outreach program coordinator at the Byrd Polar and…

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Ohio State's Carbon Emissions Have Dropped by 30% Since 2015

Ohio State News recently reported on The Ohio State University's efforts and progress toward reducing its carbon footprint stemming from sustainability goals set in 2015. To date, the…