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Ellen Mosley -Thompson and Lonnie Thompson receive 14th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change!!!

Please join the Byrd Center and the Dept of Geography in celebrating and congratulating the Thompsons, who have been awarded the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change!…

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Mitchell Lazarow (BS ASP student) assisting in the set up of a weather monitoring station at Franklinton Farms on West Rich St. This station was purchased with funds from a grant from the…

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Mae Miller, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Berkeley) and current OSU Visiting Scholar, was our very first in-person speaker since March 2020. It was a hybrid talk with 9 present in…

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Rebecca Chapman pets a sturgeon at Freshwater Farms of Ohio in Urbana, OH. This farm is a great example of diversified farm structure, offering tourism, fresh and prepared trout, and supplies for…

New Book by Madhumita Dutta

Madhumita Dutta has just published a new book, Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Students from Geog 5501 (Urban Spaces in the Global Economy) walking in Old Towne East, near the east side of Columbus. This class is taught by Madhumita Dutta.

Thompson Ice Core Lab…

PBS Newshour Special Report about Ellen and Lonnie Thompson

Geography Professor Ellen Mosley-Thompson and her husband Lonnie Thompson were features on the PBS Newshour on Nov. 4 2021, as the collectors and guardians of the worlds ice core records at the…

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Another great picture of our Geography blimp on the Oval from our Geog 1900 vertical profile lab.

Student News: 

Armita Kar (Geog) recently passed her PhD qualifying exam. Her…

Villanova University Awards Mendel Medals to Pair of Noted Climate Scientists

The Mendel Medal will be awarded to Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson from The Ohio State University, for their contributions toward improved understanding of the Earth’s…