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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…

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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…

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…

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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…

Byrd Center Ice Core Freezer

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…

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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…

Byrd Center Seminar

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…

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Geography of Sustainable Energy Course offered in SP 2020!

Geography of Sustainable Energy