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Congratulations to Zhiying Li, 2019 Rick Toracinta Scholarship Recipient

Congratulations to Zhiying Li, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, 2019 Rick Toracinta Scholarship Recipient.

Zhiying’s dissertation work focuses on relative importance of drivers of…

Climate change lessons from Bangladesh's disappearing farms

Bangladesh, a country of 165 million in southern Asia, can teach people across the world a lot about how everything from climate to food to migration to economics is intertwined,…

Celebrating Lois Jones’ 50-year legacy in polar research

This story originally appeared in The Ohio State University College of Art and Sciences News on October 14, 2019. By Olivia A. Miltner.

Terry Lee Tickhill, Lois Jones, Pam Young, Eileen…

Julie Palais Awarded 2019 Goldthwait Polar Medal

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Julie…

New satellite may make flood prediction easier

By Laura Arenschield 

A satellite scheduled to launch in 2021 could offer a more comprehensive look at flooding in vulnerable, under-studied parts of the world, including much of…

When Scientists Face an Angry Community

The scientific expedition to collect glacial ice from Earth’s highest tropical mountain had, so far, gone smoothly. The weather had been perfect. The machines had worked without failure. No one…

SnowEx 2019 workshop

I’m presenting a poster on Blender, our algorithm to merge multiple kinds of observations for SWE estimation. Here’s a flowchart of how it works (link).

The first version of the algorithm…

The Polar Rock Repository Turns 15

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Nature Article on Lonnie Thompson recent Huascaran Expedition

Nature article on Lonnie Thompson recent Huascaran expedition.  04 SEPTEMBER 2019