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Professor Darrah elected Division Head of Water, Climate and Environment
Associate Professor Thomas Darrah has been elected to head the Division of Water, Climate and Environment in the School of Earth Sciences. He replaces Professor Ian Howat who…
Jennie Harkness and co-authors receive Dalway J. Swaine award
Dr. Jennie Harkness, graduate students Colin Whyte and Myles Moore, and Professor Tom Darrah from the School of Earth Sciences have received the prestigious Dalway J. Swaine Award from the Society…
Professor Grottoli receives AGU's Voyager Award
Dr. Andrea G. Grottoli, Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, has been recognized with the Voyager Award from the American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Section in recognition for her…
OSU-led study on West Antarctica published in Science
Congratulations to the OSU-led PoleNet team for their new study published in "Science." They found surprisingly rapid crustal uplift in West Antarctica, which could have a stabilizing influence on…
Professor Emeritus William Ausich receives Moore Medal
Professor Emeritus and Orton Geology Museum Director William Ausich was presented with the 2018 R.C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology at last month's Salt Lake City AAPG/SEPM meeting.…
New Science paper on oxygen and marine evolution
Earth Sciences professor Matthew Saltzman is co-author on a paper in Science this month, which links biological evolutionary innovations to a dramatic rise of atmospheric oxygen in the…
Graduate Melissa Wrzesien's snow study covered in Science News
Melissa Wrzesien (who recently defended her doctoral thesis) published a big result recently in Geophysical Research Letters. It turns out that our estimates of annual snow accumulation in the…
Professor Wilson receives 2018 SCAR Medal
OSU School of Earth Sciences’ own Terry Wilson has been awarded the 2018 SCAR Medal for International Coordination for outstanding and sustained contributions to international cooperation and…
Professors Cook and Sawyer receive NSF CAREER Awards
Earth Science Professors Ann Cook and Audrey Sawyer have received awards from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. The prestigious…