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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 in Papua…
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." View the full story at 10tv.com
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 Learning…
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 of ocean…
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 into…
Geography of Sustainable Energy Course offered in SP 2020!
Geography of Sustainable Energy
Spatiotemporal scaling of avian diversity change
National Science Foundation: Environmental Biology Award Principal Investigator, Marta Jarzyna PROJECT ABSTRACT Marta Jarzyna Biodiversity -- the variety of all forms…
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 river…
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,…