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SES Goes to GSA in Anaheim

In September, SES made its usual strong showing at the Fall Geological Society of America Meeting in California. We gave over 23 presentations as talks and posters. Topics covered the full…

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New Working Group Fosters Tech Collaboration at SES 

The School of Earth Sciences has launched an exciting new initiative to strengthen our community's technical capabilities and foster collaboration across the department. The "SES Tech Meetup,"…

SES Graduate Students Examine Coastal Processes at Lake Erie

In September, a class of 10 SES students visited the shores of Lake Erie to collect data for their graduate-level seminar on Coastal Processes. The seminar…

Grad School 101 Seminar

SES has developed "Grad School 101" (EarthSci 6101), a skills and cohort building course designed for first year graduate students, alternatively taught by Profs. Ann Cook and Melisa Diaz. Recent…

GSA 2024 faculty, staff, and student presentations

With 23 abstracts from alumni, students, faculty, and staff, the School of Earth Sciences was strongly represented at this year's Geological Society of America meeting. Use the dropdowns below to…

The Role of the European Space Agency's CryoSat in Decoding Thwaites Glacier's Retreat

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The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites Glacier…

The Priestley Glacier. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. December 29, 2020.

Integrated Microwave Sensing Unveils Subglacial Water Dynamics Beneath Antarctica's Priestley Glacier

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The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Emeritus Ken Jezek and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor…

Researchers link El Niño to accelerated ice loss in tropics

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Natural climate patterns such as El Niño are causing tropical glaciers to lose their ice at an alarming rate, a new study has…

Declines in plant resilience threaten carbon storage in the Arctic

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Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region’s vegetation is…