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Indigenous Peoples' Day
By Chris Booker, Originally published in Ohio State News. Indigenous Peoples’ Day honored at Ohio State The day promotes the visibility of Native peoples A conversation and…
Mother Nature's Quarantine: How the Earth benefited from people staying home
Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson talks with Mackenzie Bart of WBNS News about how ice cores preserve records of human activity, atmospheric changes, and viruses and bacteria.
Western wildfires cause hazy skies, intense Ohio sunsets
Dr. Aaron Wilson discusses the far-reaching impact of the Western U.S. wildfires with The Columbus Dispatch in the article, Western wildfires cause hazy skies, intense Ohio sunsets. Read…
How ancient ice cores show ‘black swan’ events in history – even pandemics
Records of human history, preserved for thousands of years Originally published in The Conversation. By Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor, Earth Sciences, The Ohio…
Glacier Retreat Drives Continuing Greenland Ice Loss
Even if the climate warming stops, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrinkNearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if…
Scientists seek to collect ice core samples before glaciers and ice sheets melt
Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Dr. Richard Alley discuss the urgency and challenges associated with saving perfectly preserved atmospheric records contained within ice cores with Kristen Pope …
It's hot in the city: understanding the urban heat island effect on Ohio State's campus
Forty years ago, Ohio State geography Professor John Arnfield would get into his Volkswagen Microbus and set out to study the microclimates in Columbus. His wife, Joan, marked intersections in the…
Dr. Berry Lyons receives the 2020 SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research
Congratulations to Dr. Berry Lyons for receiving the 2020 SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research. Dr. Lyons has worked in Antarctica since the early 1980s and served on a number of…
Biggest ice sheet on Earth more vulnerable to melting than thought
National Geographic published an article on July 22, 2020 discussing discoveries made using rock samples stored at the Byrd Center's Polar Rock Repository (PRR). These samples were collected…