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Geography 1900  Blimp

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…

Ellen and Lonnie

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…

Geography 1900 Blimp

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Geography 1900 (Extreme Weather and Climate) prepares for their annual vertical profile lab outside Derby Hall. This aptly labeled blimp has automated weather instruments attached to the tether…

Great Basin National Park

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

L-R: Tal Shutkin, Scott Reinemann, and Garrett Dort. The Great Basin team on a hike up to the summit of Wheeler Peak (flat-topped summit on back horizon), visiting their weather data loggers to…

Reuters Icecores story

Reuters: Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt

Ice cores collected to study the history of climate cycles are affected, and even rendered useless, by global warming. Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center researchers Lonnie Thompson,…

Grads SP 2021

News Brief From Our Chair, Darla Munroe

Summer 2021 Graduation. From left to right: Jialin Li, Sohyun Park, Zhiying Li, Steven Quiring and Yuechun Wang.

Faculty News:

Max Woodworth's work on "ghost cities" in China was…

Meet and Greet 2021

News Brief from Our Chair, Darla Munroe.

The Geography Department hosted a low-density Meet & Greet at the Ohio Stadium on August 23rd.
Standing left-right Eshita Eva, Abdirashid Dahir, Sohyun Park, Max Martin, Ahmad Tokey,…

Rebecca Chapman in the field

News Brief from Our Chair, Darla Munroe.

Rebecca Chapman (PhD student, Geog; right) was in the field this summer, touring fish hatcheries across the Midwest. Theresa Shay, of the Iowa Department of Natural Resource, gives a tour of…

Mirror Lake

News Brief from Our Chair, Darla Munroe.

Faculty News: 

Harvey Miller was mentioned in a Wired article, "America’s ‘Smart City’ Didn’t Get Much Smarter."

Student News:

Armita Kar (PhD student, Geog) was…