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Meilin Zhu of the Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment at Lanzhou University, together with Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and Senior…
Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author.
Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others.
Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar…
The Ohio State University’s School of Earth Sciences is proud to announce that Dr. Melisa Diaz, SES faculty member and polar geochemistry expert, will serve as co-lead of the Cryosphere Domain for…
A recent study published in Nature Communications finds that Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) overturning circulation slowed rather than strengthened during the early phase of the last…
A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that summer warming deep inside East Antarctica is being driven by rapid ocean warming thousands of kilometers away in the southern…
Researchers led by The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Lonnie Thompson, a Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology research group and a world…
An international team of scientists, including The Ohio State University's Byrd Center Principal Investigators and School of Earth Sciences Professors Terry Wilson (POLENET Group) and Demián Gómez…
A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…
To mark its 65th anniversary, the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University hosted Ice & Aspire, a special fundraising event held on May 22, 2025. The evening…
The Ohio State University’s Byrd Center is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz, a faculty member in the School of Earth Sciences and principal investigator of the Polar and…
A new study published in AGU's Water Resources Research warns of a drastic decline in groundwater storage in the Indus Basin, threatening water security for millions in South…
A comprehensive study recently published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by a team of international scientists, including Research Associate Stanislav Kutuzov from the Byrd Center's…
A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…
A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland Ice Sheet is developing significantly more surface crevasses in key regions …
A novel initiative has been launched in a pioneering effort led by Senior Research Associate Stephanie (Konfal) Sherman, a group member with Byrd Center's POLENET: The Polar Earth Observing…
In September 2024, the Byrd Center's Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group (ICPRG) joined a scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, often referred to as Asia's "water tower," to…
In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and…
Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered that wildfire smoke significantly reduces life expectancy, while also diminishing the health benefits of local greenspaces. Greenspaces,…
Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the interaction between ice-shelf channels and the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier…
Tropical glaciers are losing ice more rapidly than most other regions worldwide, and the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru’s Andes Mountains, the largest tropical glacier, is no exception. For 50 years,…
A new study reveals that human activities have polluted some of the Earth’s most isolated areas. By analyzing ice cores from the Guliya ice cap in Tibet, researchers found clear shifts in lead…
In a significant environmental study led by researchers at The Ohio State University and collaborators from Texas A&M University, scientists have uncovered the historic and ongoing sources of lead…
The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf in West Antarctica, as detailed in the study "Basal channels,…
Researchers from The Ohio State University, led by former Byrd Center member Kyungmin Sung, now a research fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, examined how droughts and rainfall extremes…
Geography Ph.D. candidate and Byrd Center's Glacier Environmental Change Group member Tal Shutkin has been awarded the prestigious 2023-2024 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad …
Byrd Center Researchers Collaborate Globally on Groundbreaking Cryosphere Research
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the selection of CryoRad as one of four mission ideas for its…
As global temperatures increase, the carbon stored in permafrost is at risk of being broken down by microbes. The enzyme latch theory suggests that polyphenols—antioxidants that neutralize harmful…
A recent study published in the journal Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, led by the Byrd Center's Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Kaushik highlights the…
In a recent study published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, researchers investigated how iron can inhibit the transfer of phosphorus, a…
In the recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, researchers meticulously documented unprecedented cold temperatures across Antarctica that significantly impaced…
The Potential for Enhancing Large-Scale Ocean Geochemistry Models and Addressing Broader Climate Change Impacts
Four years ago, a surprising lab discovery at The Ohio State University revealed…
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a vital role in transporting climate change signals across the global ocean. A team of international researchers collaborated on a…
The Polar and Environmental Geochemistry Lab, led by Byrd Center Principal Investigator Melisa Diaz, an assistant professor in the School of Earth Sciences, is currently seeking to appoint a…
Flubber, a versatile material used extensively in science education, has historically incorporated borax in its composition. Borax poses certain health risks including skin, digestive, and…
Recently published research conducted on an ice core from Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus region aimed to reconstruct the history of organic carbon (OC) aerosol over southeastern Europe by analyzing…
An international team has successfully hot-water drilled through 580 meters of Antarctic ice, collected numerous sediment cores from beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, and gathered crucial…
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by Byrd Center's ZhiPing Zhong has unveiled how viruses that infect microbes can potentially influence the…
Congratulations to this year's Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum participants, who showcased their research on March 1, 2024.
The forum highlights research from various graduate degree…
In fiscal year 2023, The Ohio State University set a new record in its annual research and development expenditures, reaching $1.449 billion, marking a 6% increase from the previous fiscal year's …
In a pioneering effort to combat climate change, scientists at The Ohio State University are exploring the potential of viruses to enhance carbon capture in the oceans and mitigate methane…
Last November, the ANET-POLENET field team, a group of dedicated scientists and researchers led by Byrd Center Principal Investigator Terry Wilson, embarked on their 2023-2024 field season in West…
The recent warming trend since the mid-20th century poses a significant threat to the glaciers and ice sheets on the Tibetan Plateau. While glaciers in the Himalayas and the southern part of the…
The Quelccaya Ice Cap (QIC) in Peru, recognized as one of the world's largest tropical ice caps, has been the focus of extensive research, particularly in studying its fluctuations during the…
The Byrd Center is pleased to announce that three new Byrd-affiliated faculty members in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) will start in January 2024! A warm welcome to Emilie Beaudon, Melisa…
Byrd Center researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a deep-learning model to identify surface features associated with subsurface reservoirs of naturally occurring free hydrogen…
Researchers at The Ohio State University are advancing wildfire management by integrating remote sensing technology, specifically Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), for more effective detection and…
In a comprehensive study spanning 300 years (1700-2005) of an ice core from Svalbard in the European high Arctic, researchers examined the sources and characteristics of black carbon (BC)…
Annually, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting brings together over 25,000 participants from more than 100 countries, fostering a global platform for sharing research and networking. This…
Climate change is increasingly contributing to the prevalence of extreme weather phenomena such as severe droughts and floods across Europe. Researchers have expressed concern regarding this trend…
A recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres is the first to examine the oxygen stable isotope (δ18O) records of a collection of four ice cores drilled in…
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University has achieved an unprecedented milestone, securing over $15 million in new research grants during fiscal years 2022 and 2023,…
An article in the September 2023 issue of The Physics Teacher, authored by Jason Cervenec, Geddy Davis, Michael T. Gravina, and Daniel Hamilton, shares new features available for Fluid Earth and…
Recent research has revealed limitations of process-based models in accurately capturing the carbon-water coupling in permafrost regions compared to satellite-based analyses that account for…
After decades of decline due to marine disease, climate change and a number of other environmental stressors, the critically endangered elkhorn coral has found the ideal location to rebuild its…
Tom Chudley, Leverhulme research fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and former research associate at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University, spoke…
Greenland's Steenstrup Glacier, previously stable for decades, is now retreating at an unprecedented rate, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Communications. The…
The Polar Prediction Project (PPP), a decade-long initiative by the World Meteorological Organization's World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), ended on December 31, 2022. The project aimed to…
A new study has found that the growing period of hardwood forests in eastern North America has increased by an average of one month over the past century due to rising temperatures. Researchers…
A study recently published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing titled Estimating canopy height change using machine learning by coupling WorldView-2 stereo…
Recent research published in Global and Planetary Change studied the mass balance variations between glaciers situated in western Tibet and western Tien Shan during the ablation season,…
A new study led by Ohio State alum Mariano Iannuzzi, professor of materials and corrosion science at Curtin University, and co-author Gerald Frankel, professor in the Department of Materials…
Kyungmin (Kay) Sung, a postdoctoral scholar at Stagge Hydrology Lab at The Ohio State University is the lead author of a study titled Ongoing and Future…
Xuechen Yang, a graduate student in The School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, is the lead author of a study using satellite altimetry data from California's Central Valley…