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Dr. Katrina Cornish, Professor and Ohio Research Scholar, Bio-Emergent Materials, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science and Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at The…

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Study Cautions Influence of Inverse Altitude Effect When Using Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry

A new study published last week in Nature Communications titled Inverse Altitude Effect disputes the Theoretical Foundation of Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry sheds light…

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Congratulations Kay!

Kyungmin Sung successfully defended her PhD dissertation earlier this month. The title of her dissertation was Modeling Multi-centennial Nonstationary Variability in Meteorological Drought and…

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Dispersal and Fire Limit Arctic Shrub Expansion

Yanlan Liu, assistant professor at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences (SES) and School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) and Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center…

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Wildfire Forecasting Using Hemispheric Climate Modes

A new study co-authored by David Bromwich, research professor of Geography at The Ohio State University and senior research scientist at the Byrd Center was published last month in npj Climate…

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As Globe Warms, Infected Pines Starve and Disease-Causing Fungi Thrive

Enrico Bonello, professor of molecular and chemical ecology of trees in The Ohio State University's College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) , Department of Plant…

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Sustainable Soil Movement Grows at United Nation's Biodiversity Summit, Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) on Land Desertification and Drought

The Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH) is a coalition of stakeholders launched by co-leaders Leigh Winowiecki, a Soil Systems Scientist and leader of Land Health Decisions at World…

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Huascarán Expedition Virtual Reality Tour Now Also Offered in Spanish

Roxana Sierra-Hernández, postdoctoral scholar at the Byrd Center, was instrumental in the translation of two Spanish-language versions of the Huascarán Expedition Virtual Reality (VR) Tour…

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Below-Average Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Predicted for Western Lake Erie

Last month National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) released its annual HAB forecast for western Lake Erie. The forecast for this summer is a smaller than average HAB, around 3.5. The…