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Ian Howat, professor of Earth Sciences and director of Ohio State’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, has been chosen to receive the 2020 Ohio State Distinguished Scholar Award!…

Earth Sciences professor Loren Babcock, along with former Earth Sciences student Andrew Wendruff, have discovered the oldest-known scorpion fossil while studying fossils unearthed in Wisconsin 35…

Professor Derek Sawyer has been selected as a National Academies Gulf Research Program Early Career Research fellow. Professor Sawyer's research focuses on natural hazards of submarine landslides…

Professor Lonnie Thompson and his team completed a daring expedition to collect ice cores from the highest tropical glacier on Earth, located on Mount Huascarán in Peru, amid local protests…

The School of Earth Sciences (SES) and the School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR) in partnership with the Sustainability Institute seeks an ecohydrologist, broadly defined, to…

SES Professor Andréa Grottoli recently co-authored a study, as part of the Coral Restoration Consortium, which provides guidelines to help corals in the Caribbean adapt to water changes caused by…

Temperature stress is the single largest threat to coral reefs globally and is the focal topic of the newly established Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network (CBRCN). The goal of the CBRCN…

Professor Lonnie Thompson has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He joins other luminaries in academics, government, and public affairs, ranging from Albert Einstein to…

Earth Sciences M.S. student and GTA Devin Smith, advised by Professor Anne Carey, tied for second place among the graduate students in the March 29, 2019 School of Environment and Natural…