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To capitalize on the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI) and The Ohio State University’s focus on becoming a national leader in the field, the College of Arts and Sciences has…
A new global dataset offers detailed, high-resolution maps of coastlines and intertidal zones, compiled from over a decade of satellite imagery. Published in Scientific Data, the study…
The Byrd Center extends sincere thanks to Ian Howat for his leadership and guidance of the Byrd Center since 2018 and looks forward to continuing to support him in his role as a Byrd Principal…
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…
In celebration of this year's Chemists Celebrate Earth Week theme, "Glaciers: Hot Topic, Cool Chemistry!", science journalist Meg A. Mole conducted an insightful interview with…
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…
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…
Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has found.
A phenomenon that typically occurs…
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,…
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 Nature Communications, a team of researchers led by Byrd Center's ZhiPing Zhong has unveiled how viruses that infect microbes can potentially influence the…
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…
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…
Recent research published in the Journal of Glaciology is the first large-scale study of its kind focusing on the accuracy of estimating the thickness and mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves, which…
Allison Chartrand successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation earlier this month. The title of her dissertation was The Evolution and Impact of Kilometer-scale Melt Features in…
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…
Earth’s surface water, such as river flow paths and inundated floodplains, evolves spatially over time. Where and how much surface water is present is critical for evaluating droughts, floods, and…
Dr. Ian Howat, Byrd Center Research Scientist and head of the Glacier Dynamics research group, recently spoke to National Geographic about glacial melt in Antarctica.
Columbus Monthly recently spoke with Byrd Center researchers about Greenland's melting glaciers and the broader implications of climate change, here in Columbus, Ohio.
Sea-level predictions may need adjustment
Assistant Professor and Byrd Center member Lei Wang's research was recently highlighted in EOS: Gravity Data Reveal Unexpected Antarctic Ice Variations.
Lei Wang will be presenting…
As Greenland’s glaciers retreat, they are losing ice at a faster and faster rate. Michalea King, CC BY-ND
Michalea King, The Ohio State University
Greenland is the…
Even if the climate warming stops, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much…
BPCRC researchers Santiago de la Peña, Ian Howat, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson recently authored a paper describing changes in the structure of the western Greenland Ice Sheet caused by atmospheric…
New software yields the highest-resolution large-scale maps of polar ice as presented on December 18, 2014 by BPCRC's Ian Howat at the Fall 2014 AGU Meeting in San Francisco.