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Students in the Summer: Ben Jones
M.S. student Ben Jones shares his experience below about his summer in the Southwest:
Hillsboro, New Mexico:
My summer began in Hillsboro, New Mexico, within the Copper…

Professors Griffith and Saltzman featured in Around the Oval newsletter
In a recent Around the Oval weekly newsletter, School of Earth Sciences professors Matthew Saltzman and Elizabeth Griffith were recognized as they were awarded National Science Foundation (NSF)…

Dispersal and Fire Limit Arctic Shrub Expansion
Exciting news from Byrd Polar!
Yanlan Liu, assistant professor at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences (SES) and School of Environment and Natural…

Lonnie Thompson featured in Ohio State News: Climate changes lead to water imbalance, conflict in Tibetan Plateau
Our own Professor Lonnie Thompson was featured in a recent Ohio State News story.
Use this link to check out the article, titled Climate changes lead to water imbalance, conflict in…

Prof Alsdorf shepherds major bilingual monograph to publication
Prof Alsdorf has labored for years to bring to fruition a major American Geogphysical Union monograph highlighting research opportunities in the Congo River Basin. Alsdorf was the lead editor, and…

Pioneers of Paleoclimatology
Professor Lonnie Thompson '73 MS, '76 Ph.D. and Ellen Mosley-Thompson '75 MA, '79 Ph.D. were featured in four different articles in the Winter 2021 Ohio State Alumni Magazine.
Article 1:…

Sunny Days and Summer Courses: SU22 Course Offerings
General Education Summer Course OfferingsThough the snowstorms and windy days seem to suggest a never ending winter, registration for Summer 2022 courses reminds us that warmer days are headed…