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Professor Thompson and Team Extract Ice from Earth's Highest Tropical Glacier Amid Protests
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…

OSU Ecohydrology Job Position Opening
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…

Saving coral: New guidelines to protect and preserve Caribbean coral
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…

Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network Workshop
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 Thompson elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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…

Graduate student Devin Smith wins poster competition
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…

Professor Carey wins Slovene Exchange fellowship
The Slovene Research Initiative (SRI) of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies is excited to announce the results of its 2019 Faculty Exchange Program. This year, SRI will send four…

Two SES students win at Denman Conference
Two of our undergraduate majors, Becky Anderson and Prescott Vayda, were prize winners in last week's 24th annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Becky Anderson presented her research on "…

Corey Wallace receives NSF postdoctoral fellowship
Corey Wallace, PhD candidate in Earth Sciences, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation. This highly competitive award will support Corey's new research on…