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A powerful supercomputer made from Raspberry Pis
Doctoral student Amin Amooie and advisor Joachim Moortgat have teamed up to create Buckeye Pi, a platform for students to learn how to develop efficient, scalable computer code for…
Ohio State scientists recover oldest ice core outside polar regions
An international scientific team co-led by Lonnie Thomspon, Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences, successfully drilled the longest ice core outside the polar regions. The ice core…
OSU receives NSF funding to survey hurricane aftermath in USVI
Professor Derek Sawyer received a grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire multibeam maps and sediment samples in St. John (USVI) to document erosion and deposition in response to two…
OSU goes to AGU in New Orleans
Thirty-six students and faculty from SES showed off their latest research at AGU in New Orleans last week. We presented more than 25 posters and 18 talks on topics ranging from solid earth…
Nature covers SES research on exoplanetary geology
Together with Cayman Unterborn (PhD 2016), Professor Wendy Panero’s work was highlighted in Nature, outlining a geophysically informed approach for the study of exoplanets. This is …
Ordovician life just needed a breath of fresh air
Earth Sciences professor Matthew Saltzman is co-author on a paper in Nature Geoscience this month, with former PhD student Cole Edwards (PhD 2014, now Assistant Professor at Appalachian…
Professor Andrea Grottoli named AAAS Fellow
Andrea Grottoli, professor of earth sciences at OSU, has been chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are elected to receive this prestigious award…
OSU goes to GSA in Seattle
Kudos to our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students who presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Seattle last week. Members of SES convened one session and…
Students awarded scholarships from Byrd Polar
Earth Sciences undergraduate majors, Lily Kleban and Becky Anderson, have been awarded competitive McKenzie–Brecher Undergraduate Research Scholarships from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research…