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Research led by Lonnie Thompson of the School of Earth Sciences shows that ice preserved within Tibet's Guliya Ice Cap may be more than 128,000 years old, making it one of the oldest mountain glacier…
The School of Earth Sciences is proud to congratulate Thomas Darrah, Professor of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University, on being named a recipient of the Geological Society of America (GSA)…
Research co-authored by Melisa Diaz, Assistant Professor in The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, is helping lead important conversations…
A startup founded on research from The Ohio State University is advancing a promising new approach to coral reef restoration. UZELA, a company built around technology developed by Andrea Grottoli,…
In a publication in the journal Nature, SES doctoral student Kara Lamantia and professors Lonnie Thompson and Emilie Beaudon used ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the…
SES Professor Elizabeth Griffith has been chosen to give the Endowed Biogeochemistry Lecture at the 2026 Goldschmidt Conference of the Geochemical Society. She will present "Isotopic clues to…
Dr. Andréa Grottoli, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences, has been selected to receive the 2026 John H. Martin Award from the Association for the Sciences of…
A new study led by SES Researcher Stanislav Kutuzov shows that microscopic dust preserved in Antarctic ice provides powerful insights into Earth’s past climate and atmospheric circulation. By…
Congratulations to the 2026 Summer Research Scholars!
Eleven Earth Science majors will receive scholarships to pursue research projects over the summer under the…
School of Earth Sciences Graduate Program Specialist, Angeletha (Angie) Rogers , receives a 2026 OSU Distinguished Staff Award!
The Distinguished Staff Award annually honors staff…
SES Assistant Professor Alex Michaud is a recipient of the 2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. This is an annual award given by Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry in…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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A Columbus man who has spent most of his life collecting ice in the tropics will be featured on Comedy Central’s The…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The Geology Club packed their fall semester with adventures across Ohio and Kentucky. Members visited Mammoth Cave National Park, went fossil hunting at Trammel Fossil Park, and hiked at both…
This November, the School of Earth Sciences Graduate Student Club, led by Noah Gronewold, Matthew Idzakovich, and Denise Mondragon, hosted two outreach events with students ranging in age from k…
SES was selected to participate in this year’s two-day ExxonMobil Southeast Recruiting Short Course on “Subsurface Geology and Fluid Flow: Application in Basic Geologic Modeling”, November 6-9,…
Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences Receives $4.7M Endowment from the Estate of Donald E. Jessup
The Ohio State University proudly announces the largest gift…
Professor Andrea Grottoli led her Earth Sciences Oceanography class on their annual field trip to experience marine organisms firsthand, visiting both the Reef Systems Coral Farm and the Columbus…
The School of Earth Sciences Alumni Board visited campus on November 3rd, bringing together professional expertise and student curiosity through strategic planning sessions, career conversations,…
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…
Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences graduate student Saffron Martin traveled to Southampton, United Kingdom, this October to present her research at the Gas in Marine Sediments (GIMS16)…
The Friends of Orton Hall Fund has been providing invaluable support for our students to conduct fieldwork, present at conferences, and achieve research milestones. We extend our heartfelt thanks…
A new textbook entitled Physical Geodesy: Global Elastic Deformation of the Earth, authored by Prof. Jun-Yi Guo is currently in press with Springer.
Its contents belong to the…
Dr. Emilie Beaudon, Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and Assistant Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, has been awarded an NSF-CAREER grant. Her 5-year…
To capitalize on the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI) and The Ohio State University’s focus on becoming a national leader in the field, the College of Arts and Sciences has…
A new publication in the journal Science of the Total Environment by Professor Grottoli's team and lead by her postdoc Dr. Hulver shows that even the most resilient corals will suffer from…
New study by the Grottoli team graduate student Shannon Dixon published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology shows that UZELA technology doubles baby coral survivorship and…
Congratulations to our Summer 2025 graduates!
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Professor Patrick Louchouarn was recently featured on "Living on Earth," a nationally syndicated environmental news program that airs on public radio stations nationwide.
In the segment…
Batoul sailed on the NSF research vessel Sikuliaq on a two-week-long expedition in the Gulf of Alaska this June. The goals of this expedition were to: (1) understand how iron is stored and…
Congratulations to Dr. Dale Gnidovec on Receiving the 2025 ODNR Cardinal Award!
We are thrilled to share that Dr. Dale Gnidovec, Curator of…
Unearthing these sediments may pave the way for advanced climate research
Original article by Tatyana Woodall from Ohio State News
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Deep…
After over 25 years as a faculty member in the School of Earth Sciences, Professor W Berry Lyons retired from Ohio State on 31 May, 2025. Lyons was hired in December, 1999 as the Director of the…
This year marks the 78th anniversary of our Field Camp program in the School of Earth Sciences.
The team consists of 15 students (11 from Ohio State and 4 from other Ohio schools), 2…
We proudly announce that Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz, principal investigator of the Polar and Environmental Geochemistry Lab, has been named a 2025–2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Diaz is…
Congratulations to our spring 2025 award recipients!
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Congratulations to our Spring 2025 graduates!
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Brendan W. Crowell, assistant professor, School of Earth Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Specialist grant to the Escuela Politécnica Nacional…
School of Earth Science Assistant Professors Alex Michaud and Emilie Beaudon were awarded a one-year grant from the College of Arts and Science to study how life persists in glaciers. The grant…
Dr. David Cole, Professor and Ohio Research Scholar Endowed Chair in Subsurface Science and Sustainability, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science …
Congratulations to SES undergraduate Abby Smith for her 2nd place finish at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in the Earth & Beyond category for her undergraduate thesis research "Examining…
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A comprehensive study recently published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by a team of international…
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In celebration of this year's Chemists Celebrate Earth Week theme, "Glaciers: Hot Topic, Cool Chemistry!"…
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Earlier this week, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to scholarship, leadership, and service,…
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A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing…
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In a recent episode of Tech Tuesday on WOSU, All Sides' Amy Juravich engaged in a compelling discussion with two of The…
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The Ohio State University researchers are pioneering a promising climate change mitigation strategy by exploring the…
Thanks to funding from the Friends of Orton Hall (FOH), nine graduate students had the opportunity to travel globally for conferences and fieldwork in the summer and fall of 2024. They presented…
Established in the late 1980’s by Professors Hal Noltimier, Jeff Daniels, Ian Whillans, Ken Jezek, and Ralph von Frese, the Fund promotes geophysical research…
Dr. Shelley Judge returned to the OSU School of Earth Sciences family full time in Spring 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Teaching. Shelley is a classically trained field geologist and science…
The School of Earth Sciences has made a significant investment in our students' and researchers’ computational capabilities by purchasing dedicated high-performance computing resources within the…
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A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience reveals that in response to climate change, the Greenland…
Professors David Cole and Ann Cook of the School of Earth Sciences will receive $1.2 million in funding as part of a cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office…
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Human activities have led to the pollution of…
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Tropical glaciers are losing ice more rapidly than most other regions worldwide, and the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru’s…
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In a significant environmental study led by researchers at The Ohio State University and collaborators from Texas A&M…
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A new traveling exhibit titled "Dust: Jumpstarting Life on Earth’s Coldest, Driest Continent" is set to unveil the…
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Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the…
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In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum…
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In 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring 2025 the International Year of Glaciers'…
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Last month, at the prestigious American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, Postdoctoral Scholar Steve Coss from the…
Professors David Cole and Ann Cook of the School of Earth Sciences will receive $1.2 million in funding as part of a cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office…
Congratulations to our Autumn 2024 graduates!
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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…
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,"…
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 is being taught by Professors Derek and…
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…
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…
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The European Space Agency's (ESA's) CryoSat mission has provided invaluable insights on the retreat of the Thwaites…
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The Ohio State University's Earth Sciences Professor Emeritus Ken Jezek and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor…
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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…
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Rapid warming has impacted the northern ecosystem so significantly that scientists are concerned the region’s vegetation…
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In a significant environmental study led by researchers at The Ohio State University and collaborators from Texas A&M…
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Coral reefs will continue to experience severe heat stress as rising temperatures cause the oceans to…