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The zone where soil and plant roots meet is rich with microbes that influence plant growth and health.

New Center of Microbiome Science is in the works at Ohio State

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High altitude porters descending equipment and ice cores from the Dasuopu ice core drilling site. Photo credit: Vladimir Mikhalenko

Himalayan glacier shows evidence of start of Industrial Revolution

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Lonnie Thompson seated with 10 other True Originals

Lonnie Thompson one of the Columbus 'True Originals'

Lonnie G. Thompson, a paleoclimatologist, joins poet and author Hanif Abdurraqib, art and music producers Jack and Zoe Johnstone, and artists Jackie Calderone and Robert Post to be honored by the…

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Congratulations to Michalea King & Kira Harris

The AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award is a prestigious award that is only granted to the top 5% of student participants. The Byrd Center is pleased to recognize two students, Michalea…

Eruption of Alaska’s Augustine Volcano in 2006. Credit: Cyrus Read, USGS

Using Satellites and Supercomputers to Track Arctic Volcanoes

Chunli Dai and her work with the ArcticDEM project was recently featured in Earth & Space Science News (EOS). Read the story at EOS.org.

Dr. Dai's current research includes Quantifying…

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Birds And Climate Change

Byrd Center Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator, Dr. Aaron Wilson, discusses Birds and Climate Change on NPR's All Sides with Ann Fisher. Visit wosu.org to listen to the…

Aerial view of downtown Columbus along the Scioto River

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…

The ArcticDEM Project

Congratulations to Dr. Chunli Dai for her newly awarded NASA project!

Quantifying Arctic Mass Wasting Using ArcticDEM Principal Investigator, Chunli Dai PROJECT ABSTRACT

Chunli Dai

The ArcticDEM project (www.arcticdem.org) has recently released a large…

Researchers in winter gear are delivered supplies on snow via helicopter

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…