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Ellen Mosley-Thompson smiling wearing a bright-blue zip-up jacket leaning against a railing.

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…

Annotated aerial photo of an Antarctic mountain slope showing a small pond (circled in red) amid snow and exposed rock, with labels for Permian sedimentary rocks, a Jurassic dolerite sill, Lower Paleozoic granite, and Upper Cenozoic moraines.

The Ohio State team has documented a small, high-elevation pond in Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains that appears to have remained frozen for decades. The team reports that the pond sits on the…

Group photo of about two dozen workshop participants standing on a stage in a conference room, with a projection screen behind them.

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),…

Infographic showing the **Holtedahlfonna ice core (Svalbard)** and a stacked bar chart where **mineral dust contributes more to light absorption after 1875 than before 1875**. Icons below link the change to **strong winds, higher temperatures, and increased melt**.

The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES), Assistant Professor Emilie Beaudon, co-authored a study proposing a new dust proxy in an Arctic ice core. A principal investigator at the…

sunlit iceberg with scattered sea ice under a pastel arctic sky

A new study led by Oregon State University paleoclimatologist Peter U. Clark reports that global sea level fluctuated far more dramatically—and more frequently—throughout the last ice age than…

A cold landscape snow covered and an Ocean in the foreground.

A new international study has provided essential insights into how clouds interact with radiation over the Southern Ocean, a key factor in Antarctic weather and climate dynamics and global climate…

Lonnie Thompson meeting with Peruvian President (2019)

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…

Matt Sullivan

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced its 2026 Awards and Prize Program honorees. Among the recipients is Matthew Sullivan, professor in the Departments of Microbiology and…

view of green mountains under white clouds at a distance

A new international study has uncovered how subtle changes in Earth's orbit triggered opposing rainfall patterns between Asia and Australia over the past 300,000 years. The research, published in …

Map displaying ice concentration and movement around Antarctica, with color-coded areas showing ice concentration percentages and arrows indicating directional ice flow with a legend on the left.

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…

An  engineered spherical SiO₂ microparticle.

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…

Melisa Diaz

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…

Thatched roof houses. Rural life, a remote paradise island under blue skies and white clouds and palms.

A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…

Researchers ascending a steep, icy section of a mountain and moving equipment, using fixed ropes for safety.

A new study published in Nature's Communications Earth & Environment highlights a discrepancy in Holocene climate models, particularly over tropical mountains.

The research, led by…

Panoramic view of a wooden boardwalk meandering through a lush, rocky landscape in Lapland, with a solitary leafless tree on the left and misty mountains in the background.

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers provided critical insights into the microbial interactions driving methane emissions in freshwater wetlands, a significant…

Snow-covered field with patches of grass visible, leading to a dense forest at the foot of the towering, snow-capped Rocky Mountains under a clear blue sky.

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…

Panoramic view of a Valley showing expansive white flats, winding rivers, and distant mountains under a clear blue sky.

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…

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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…

Panoramic view of Antarctica featuring expansive ice-covered mountains under a cloudy sky.

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, led by Pranab Deb and co-authored by David Bromwich, Principal Investigator at the Byrd Center's Polar Meteorology Group,…

Rough dark blue ocean under a dark, cloudy sky.

An important new study published in Nature's NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science introduces a novel technique for estimating the true age of deep ocean water. Ms. Jinbo Du, a former…

Honey bee, butterflies and lady bud on lavender flowers in panoramic view.

A recent review by a group of international researchers published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing…

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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…

Three individuals standing in a laboratory with shelves containing scientific samples behind them.

The Ohio State University researchers are pioneering a promising climate change mitigation strategy by exploring the carbon capture potential of concrete weathering in soil. Brittany Multer…

Three people walking up a snow covered hill, surrounded by mountains, with blue skies and white clouds..

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…

A person releasing a weather balloon into the sky from a snowy landscape during sunrise or sunset.

A recent study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, authored by an international team including lead researcher Professor David Bromwich from the Department of…

West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.

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…

Top of mountains full of snow

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…