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Professor Derek Sawyer Awarded NSF Career Grant
SES Professor Derek Sawyer has been awarded a National Science Foundation Career Grant for his work on seafloor landslides!
The massive amount of sediment moved by seafloor landslides…

Professor Ozeas Costa publishes new research: using natural radionuclides to reconstruct sediment accumulation rates in the South China Sea
Exciting research from SES Professor Ozeas Costa (OSU Mansfield) showing the first record of sediment accumulation rates for the…

SES Graduate Student Lindsey Hernandez Receives 2020 NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Ph.D. Student Lindsey Hernandez for being honored as a 2020 recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship to support her research on…

Professor Andrea Grottoli Awarded 2020-2021 U.S. Fulbright Award to France
Earth Sciences Professor Andrea Grottoli has been awarded a prestigious 2020-2021 U.S. Fulbright Award to France!
Dr. Grottoli will visit Laboratoire Océanographique de Villefranche…

SES Graduate Student Lindsey Hernandez Receives 2019 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant Through OSU Center for Latin American Studies
Earth Sciences graduate student Lindsey Hernandez has received a 2019 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant through OSU Center for Latin American Studies! Along with this award, she…

SES Students Win AGU 2019 Outstanding Student Paper Awards
Please join us in congratulating SES’s three winners of fall AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards! These go to just the top 3-5% of the graduate student presentations at the Fall Meeting of the AGU…
Professor Ian Howat Receives University Distinguished Scholar Award
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!…

Fossil of Oldest Known Scorpion Discovered by Professor Loren Babcock
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…

Professor Derek Sawyer Selected as National Academies Gulf Research Program Fellow
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…