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Professor Andréa Grottoli wins OSU Faculty-to-Faculty Mentorship Award
Professor Andréa Grottoli received the inaugural Faculty-to-Faculty Mentorship Award from Ohio State's Office of Academic Affairs for her excellence and leadership in faculty mentoring. Based on…
BuckAI Observatory Featured in AGU TV Thought Leadership Series
The School of Earth Sciences' BuckAI Observatory, directed by Dr. Joachim Moortgat, was recently spotlighted in the AGUTV Thought Leadership Series at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting (December 15–19,…
SES Professor Mike Durand uses new satellite data to get first estimate of global river storage
In a recent paper in the journal Nature, SES Professor Michael Durand and his team uses observations from the new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to provide the first global…
Melisa Diaz Named 2026 Recipient of F. W. Clarke Award
SES Assistant Professor Melisa A. Diaz will receive the 2026 F. W. Clarke Award from the Geochemical Society this July. The Clarke Award honors a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or…
SES Professor described as ‘the real life Indiana Jones’ making ‘Daily Show’ appearance
Originally posted by Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center A Columbus man who has spent most of his life collecting ice in the tropics will be featured on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show next week…
SES a part of newly selected NASA ICAR to study Ocean Worlds
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…
John Olesik Honored by Special Journal Issue
The February 2026 issue of the journal Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy is dedicated to Dr. John Olesik, senior research scientist in SES and director of the Trace Element Research…
Fall 2025 SES Alumni Board Meeting
The Alumni Board visited the School of Earth Sciences on November 3rd. Board members advised SES on the focus of the new departmental strategic plan, participated in student-alumni career chats, and…
Earth Science Students Explore Spectacular Geology of Guadalupe Mountains
During fall break, Professors Derek Sawyer and Matthew Saltzman led a field trip to share the spectacular geology of the Guadalupe Mountains with 8 of our earth science graduate students. The 5-day…