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Dami Salau’s research featured in OIA!
Dami Salau’s research on flood risks and climate change is featured on the Office of International Affairs website! Check it out at https://oia.osu.edu/news/2025/09/29/documenting-…

Lonnie Thompson on BBC’s 'The Climate Solution' podcast
Dr. Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and affiliated faculty in Geography, is featured on the BBC podcast ’The Climate Solution’. Pour…

Celebrating our Atmospheric Science faculty
Congratulations to Steven Quiring who has been elected as a 2026 AMS Fellow. Fellows are elected by the AMS Council because of their “outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or…

Extreme Weather and Forecasting Radio Talk
Joseph and Jana were on All Sides with Amy Juravich on July 22 to talk about all things extreme weather-related and forecasting-related! You can listen in here: https://www.wosu.org/show/all-…

Check out these storymaps from students in the SU2024 version of GEOG 2400.02
With the guidance of our GIS administrator, Michelle Hooper, students in Dr. Ariel Rawson’s Summer 2024 offering of Social and Economic Geography (GEOG 2400.02) created a compelling series of…

Harvey Miller and CURA at the Ohio History Connection for Juneteenth
Harvey Miller, Jordan Swaim-Fox, and Gavin Lavine were on hand at the Juneteenth Jubilee at the Ohio History Connection on June 19. They shared CURA’s new Ghost Neighborhoods project which uses 3D…

Leadership change at Geographical Analysis
After eight remarkable years of service, Rachel Franklin—Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard—will be stepping down as editor of Geographical Analysis at the end of…

From the field: Dr. Jana Houser’s storm chasing class!
Students in Dr. Houser’s new class, Field Observations of Severe Convective Storms (ATMOSSC 5701), are currently touring the National Weather Center and Radar Innovation Lab in Norman,…

Sharpe Field Library Drone School
Last week, students from the Department of Geography participated in a hands-on drone photogrammetry demonstration run by Adam Tjoelker through the Sharpe Field Library (SFL). The demo…