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Emily Mazan Successfully Defends her Ph.D. Dissertation

Congratulations to Emily Mazan on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation, "A Multiscale Examination of Changing Mountain Climates: Integrating Observations and Modeling in the Snake…

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Collaborative Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop Held in Bangkok

The Ohio State University Indus Basin Project team includes Professor Nicholas Breyfogle (Department of History; Director, Goldberg Center), Fazlul Haq (Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center),…

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Understanding Urban Warming in Rajshahi City Through Thermal Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis

A recent study published in Sustainability explores the patterns and causes of wintertime urban warming in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh. The study was co-authored by Dr. Md…

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Congratulations to Kara Lamantia and Forrest Schoessow on Their Successful Ph.D. Defenses

We congratulate Kara Lamantia and Forrest Schoessow, who defended their Ph.D. dissertations successfully.

Kara defended her dissertation on May 7, 2025. Her research, titled …

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Glaciological and Geophysical Perspectives on Tropical Ice from a Scientific Survey of Mt. Huascarán

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to one…

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Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support
By Fazlul Haq

In 1995, World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin warned that whereas the conflicts of the previous 100 years had been over oil, “the wars of the next century will be fought over water.”

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Byrd Center Researchers Trek to Great Basin National Park in Nevada on a Winter Expedition to Investigate Impact of Snowpack on Sensors

Over spring break, from March 7–14, members of the Byrd Center's Glacier Environmental Change group undertook a winter field expedition to the mountains of Nevada to gather critical data on…

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Celebrating the 2025 Hayes Advanced Research Forum Winners

The 39th annual Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum took place on Friday, February 28, 2025, at The Ohio State University's Ohio Union. It brought together graduate students and postdoctoral…

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A Novel Use of Artificial Intelligence in Filling the Data Gap for GRACE and GRACE-FO Missions Using ERA5-Land Reanalysis

A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its…