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New names for fossil sharks: News from the Orton Museum
The Carboniferous Period (359–200 million years ago) is known as the “Age of Coal Swamps” and the “Age of Sharks.” And Ohio’s Carboniferous rocks are rich in both coal formed in these swamps and…
New SES Professor Alex Michaud Studies Life in Frozen Places
I am excited to join OSU, the School of Earth Sciences, and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. My fascination with ice started at a very young age. I grew up in Minnesota and spent many…
Fund Spotlight: Friends of Orton Hall
Established in 2006 by numerous donors, the Friends of Orton Hall fund supports undergraduate and graduate students doing research. In calendar year 2023, donors gave over $37,000 to support the…
New SES Professor Emilie Beaudon Examines Climate Signals Preserved in Ice
Dr. Emilie Beaudon is an ice core paleoclimatologist whose research focuses on extracting multi-millennium records of wildfires, mineral dust and trace metals atmospheric contamination within…
New SES Professor Brendan Crowell Investigates Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards
In August 2024, Dr. Brendan Crowell will be joining the School of Earth Sciences as an Assistant Professor within the Division of Geodetic Science. He received his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of…
Three new faculty to join SES & Byrd Polar!
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY BYRD POLAR AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER. The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and the School of Earth Sciences are excited to welcome three new…
NASA and Google's Collaborative Venture: 'A Passage of Water' - An Interactive Dive into Global Freshwater Resources
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY BYRD POLAR AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER. In a pioneering partnership with Google Arts & Culture, NASA has collaborated with artist Yiyun Kang to create an…
Impacts and Sources of Black Carbon in the Arctic: Insights from a 300-Year Svalbard Ice Core Record
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY BYRD POLAR AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER. In a comprehensive study spanning 300 years (1700-2005) of an ice core from Svalbard in the European high Arctic…
Tropical ice cores offer deeper insights into Earth’s temperature record: New study finds these cores may be best indicators of global temperature change
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY OHIO STATE NEWS. Press release published by Tatyana Woodall (woodall.52@osu.edu). A new study suggests ice recovered from high tropical mountains can reveal key…