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Killer heat: US cities plan for coming heatwaves
When heatwaves hammered US cities this summer - one of the hottest summers in recorded history - some city governments had a plan in place. Philadelphia’s plan sent homeless outreach teams to…
Congratulations to Dr. Chunli Dai for her newly awarded NASA project!
Quantifying Arctic Mass Wasting Using ArcticDEM Principal Investigator, Chunli Dai PROJECT ABSTRACTChunli Dai
The ArcticDEM project…
Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found.
The glaciers…
Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio
Doppler10 Meteorologist Drew Anderson visited the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to "Experience what it's like in Antarctica right here in central Ohio."
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Polar Education Just Got Cooler
The Education and Outreach Group of the Byrd Center at The Ohio State University will co-lead Polar Literacy: A Model for Youth Engagement and Learning, an NSF-funded Advancing Informal STEM…
How a warming world may alter functions of the oceans' organisms
Scientists identify characteristics of tiny sea life influenced by water temperature
New research takes scientists a step closer to identifying important characteristics of the communities…
Thompsons inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geography, and Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, were inducted…
Spatiotemporal scaling of avian diversity change
National Science Foundation: Environmental Biology Award Principal Investigator, Marta JarzynaPROJECT ABSTRACT
Marta Jarzyna
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