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We are expanding our geospatial curriculum with a new course focused on one of the fastest-growing tools for collecting high-resolution geographic data.
Dr. Sen Wang and PhD…
Faculty members Dr. Joseph Chan and Dr. Steven Quiring have received a $1.03 million award from the National…
Professor Stavros Constantinou leads our GEOG 3755 (Geography of the European Union and the Challenges of Sustainability)— a study abroad summer course in Cyprus. See this Office of International…
Dr. Jana Houser, storm chaser!
Nearly 30 years after the movie Twister inspired a generation, women are redefining storm chasing—and our very own…
A hearty congratulations to Brandon Rothrock and Harvey Miller who were both honored at today’s 2026 University Outreach and Engagement Recognition Luncheon…
The Council of Graduate Students (C.G.S.) has named Professor Steven Quiring a recipient of the C.G.S. Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes students,…
Ellen Mosley-Thompson has been named to the 2026 class of Inspiring Women from Columbus Monthly and Columbus CEO! Ellen has long inspired us in the halls of Derby, so no surprise here!
Congratulations to Geography alumni, Gary Sharpe (Geography, 1970), who received the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Service Award at the 2026 Alumni Awards celebration…
On April 10, 2026, the class “A World Divided? Space, Place, and Regions in World Affairs” (GEOG/INTSTDS 3650) went on a field trip through the former coal mining region of Eastern Ohio. The class…
Srijana Shrestha – 3rd Place
2026 RSSG Student Illustrated Paper Competition
Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG 2026 Annual Meeting
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Congratulations to Brandon Rothrock, who has been selected as a recipient of this year’s Community Engaged Graduate Student Award from Ohio State’s Office of Outreach and Engagement. This…
Last week, Geography PhD student Adam Tjoelker travelled to Washington, DC to lobby for congressional support of science funding. Adam was selected to participate in these meetings as part of the…
Congratulations to H. Rainak Khan Real who placed 2nd in this year’s Edward F. Hayes Advanced Research Forum! Real’s poster, in the the mathematical and physical sciences category, was titled …
Students from The Ohio State University’s Atmospheric Science Program, housed in the Department of Geography, have been participating in real-world data collection this winter. Led by faculty…
Department friend and NBC4 meteorologist, Ben Gelber, has a new book, titled Pennsylvania Weather: a 400-Year Chronicle of Historic Events. The book documents four centuries of…
Geography and Ohio State’s new BuckAI Observatory
As many of you will know, geographers are well-represented in ASC’s new BuckAI Observatory, housed in Earth Sciences and run by…
In the latest episode of the WUWM podcast Midwest Moxie, Steven Quiring discusses how extreme wind events impact electric utilities. The segment highlights Steven’s work co-founding…
On the latest ASC Voices of Excellence podcast with host David Staley, Harvey Miller, professor of geography and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, discusses his project …
Last week, Ohio State Geography had a strong presence at the East Lakes AAG Meeting hosted by the University of Cincinnati, with most registrants attending from OSU. Two geography students won…
Hey future faculty! The Department of Geography at The Ohio State University is searching for an Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences. We…
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-floods-and…
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 yourself a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, Oklahoma. …
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 took place…
A few weeks ago we shared a news story of Geography at the 2025 Arts and Sciences Alumni Award Ceremony. We wanted to share a few more snapshots of the events with you all, please reference the…
Last Friday, Geography was a featured “interactive showcase” at this year’s ASC Alumni Awards ceremony. Adam Tjoelker, Jana Houser, Steven Quiring
At the 2025 World Geography Bowl at the AAG meeting in Detroit, the ELDAAG team placed fourth out of eight teams. Aniket Sangwan, Adam Tjoelker, and Summer Ha were among the six students in the…
Dr. Sandy Wong has won the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. The Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group (HMGSG) of the AAG recognized Sandy as an early career…
Congratulations to our intrepid undergraduate students who presented their work at this year’s national AAG meeting in Detroit. Emma Maher presented her thesis “Extreme heat,…
Congratulations to Professor Harvey Miller, faculty member in Geography and director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, who won the2025 James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied…
Emma Maher won a Sustainability Institute award at this year’s Denman competition for her project titled Extreme heat, urban experimentation, and visions of past futures in Seville, Spain…
Jonathan Anderegg, a graduate student in the MGIST program, has been announced a finalist in the worldwide 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition: Storytelling For a Better World. His StoryMap:…
The Ohio State Buckeyes secured the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship with a 34-23 victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on January 20, 2025. Although the Buckeyes concluded…
Department chair Mat Coleman was on the Newark campus today, visiting the new dean of Newark, Matt Smith, along with a group of chairs from the College of Arts and Sciences.
If you haven’t…
Dr. Madhumita Dutta teaches our new 4-credit hour, research-intensive version of Geography 2400. The class is a Citizenship-themed GE and is one of our most popular offerings. As part of the class…
It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Sandy Wong and Dr. Sen Wang are recipients of the 2024-2025 L.A. Brown Faculty Fellowship. Sandy and Sen will each be receiving $10,000…
At a public event at the Union Grove Baptist Church on the Near East Side neighborhood of Columbus, the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) teamed up with the Sharpe Field Library to…
Dr. Kendra McSweeney is spending the year traveling to schools across the country to share her research and to spread the good word about geography through the Phi Beta Kappa program. Phi Beta…
Ben Gelber, an Emmy Award winning meteorologist at NBC4i (WCMH) in Columbus, has a new story and short video on tornados, featuring Dr. Jana Houser. Ben interviewed Jana after her recent packed…
Dr. Zhengyu Liu has been named the 2025 recipient of the Milutin Milanković Medal! Awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), this prestigious honor recognizes outstanding…
Our resident storm chaser and Hollywood consultant on tornados, Professor Jana Houser, talked this past Sunday about the current state of all things tornado-related to a packed house at Ohio State…
Ohio State Geography was well-represented at the joint East Lakes-West Lakes AAG Meeting at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. We had the 3rd highest number of registrations at the…
Dr. Tammy Parece (https://geography.osu.edu/people/parece.1) secured a governor’s proclamation from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recognizing National Geography Week as November 18-24, 2024! The…
Assistant professor, Dr. Joseph Chan has been awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Grant from the Office of Naval Research for research on high-resolution numerical aerosol…
Monday Oct. 28, students from the Department of Geography participated in the first Sharpe Field Library (SFL) Drone School flight day. During this session at Tuttle Park, SFL…
On Thursday, October 17th Kat Finneran worked with Bill Lyons and Carolyn Harding from local water rights group, Columbus Bill of Rights, to install remote water monitoring sensors along Alum…
Geographical Analysis, a premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in spatial analysis, geographic theory, and quantitative methods, is seeking a dynamic new editor-in-chief to lead its…
Experience the Geography Blimp Launch in 360°!
This week the Geography Blimp could be seen in action above the oval collecting vertical profiles of the atmosphere for GEOG 1900, but have you…
Tal Shutkin has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship by the Department of Education. Tal will be headed to Peru for seven months in support of his…
Brandon Rothrock, who is working with Becky Mansfield, is interviewed about the intersection of the environment and LGBTQ+ identities, as well as emerging climate and health issues in Appalachia,…
Last week, August 1 - 9, 2024, two OSU Geography undergraduate students, Geoffrey Brown and Harrison Frenken, joined PhD student Adam Tjoelker and Professor Bryan Mark on the Department’s (nearly)…
Dr. Jana Houser is interviewed at length in a new piece on tornado science and the movie Twisters in the current issue of Scientific American. Jana was involved with Twisters…
Emma Maher, a third year honors student in the Geography department, presented her research titled "Extreme heat, urban experimentation, and visions of past futures in Seville, Spain" at…
Dr. Jana Houser is featured in the current ‘Now at Ohio State’ podcast, talking with host Jeff Grabmeier about the science and impact of tornadoes. She also talks about her role in the new motion…
On June 6, Geography welcomed 100 elementary, middle, and high school teachers from Columbus City Schools. This event was part of a collaborative initiative involving Columbus City Schools,…
Jana Houser is our newest Martha L. Corry Faculty Fellow! Congratulations Jana on this prestigious appointment! The award provides $10,000 of funding annually for five years which can be used on…
Representatives from American Electric Power visited the Sharpe Commons this Wednesday, April 25, to present a donation of a DJI drone with LiDAR equipment that can be used in a wide range of…
A group of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the Department of Geography went on a tour of some of OSU’s energy infrastructure, led by staff with ENGIE, the energy provider for…
Congratulations to Emma Maher, a third-year honors student double majoring in Geography (Urban, Regional, and Global Studies) and International Studies (Globalization) with a…
At the AAG meeting in Hawaii Becky Mansfield was recognized with the CAPE Distinguished Career Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group. This award is given annually “in…
Congratulations to Dr. Madhumita Dutta and Jackie Beck, both of whom were celebrated at the Arts and Sciences Spring Recognition Reception yesterday afternoon.
Madhu received the…
Social and Environmental Geography (SEG) majors Cat Adams, Tyler Littlejohn, Natalie Stotz, Emma Maher, Allen Liu, and Geoffrey Brown join Dr. Max Woodworth after…
Congratulations to Dr. Jana Houser who found time between consulting on the new Twisters film (in theatres on July 19) and building her $1.75 million radar truck to be honored last night…
Kendra McSweeney has been elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow! This is one of the most prestigious honors that can be bestowed upon a U.S. scientist. Fellows…
Last week the College of Arts and Sciences recognized Wes Haines (B.S. Geography, 2008; M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, 2013) with an Emerging Leadership Award in recognition of his professional…
Dr. Jana Houser has partnered with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to build an Ohio-specific severe weather dashboard. The dashboard provides navigation options for users to access…
If you were a Geography student, you wouldn’t be in class this lovely Spring morning—you’d be on the oval flying our weather blimp! Happy Friday from everyone on the Geography 1900 team! Pictured…
Dr. Luyu Liu (Geography PhD, 2023), Adam Porr (MORPC), and Professor Harvey Miller have received the JGS Best Paper Award for their 2022 article in the Journal of Geographical Systems,…
Prof. Madhumita Dutta published an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch today concerning the health and environmental impacts of the new Intel site currently under construction in New Albany, Ohio. She…
Professor Harvey Miller, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, spoke with All Sides host Anna Staver about a new Capital Line Trail for downtown Columbus. Harvey’s…
Dr. Anisa Kline, a graduate from our department last year, presented her research on trends and patterns in H2A workers in Ohio. Her talk focused on the need for changes and more human treatment…
We are pleased to announce that Sen Wang, a PhD candidate graduating from Purdue University this spring will be joining our department in the fall!
While pursuing his doctoral degree in…
Geography faculty Mat Coleman and Kendra McSweeney have hosted two talks in their Mershon-funded colloquium series ‘Legal Geopolitics of the Ocean’. Professor Laleh Khalili (University of Exeter)…
New research by Jonathan Stiles (https://www.arch.columbia.edu/faculty/5512-jonathan-stiles) and Geography faculty member and CURA Director Harvey Miller shows that the built environment plays an…
Geography professor Kendra McSweeney is a 2024-2025 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (https://www.pbk.org/visitingscholars/2024-2025/kendra-mcsweeney). Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting…
Master’s student John Layman showcased his research on the city’s proposed high-capacity bus rapid transit (BRT) initiative at a recent Arts and Sciences event on promoting economic opportunity in…
The Ohio State University Meteorology Club hosted their Annual Weather, Water, and Climate Symposium on Thursday, February 8, 2024. This event connected students and community members with…
The GGO (Geography Graduate Student Organization) put together a celebration of the Lunar New Year, a festive time across East Asia and diasporic communities around the world. Professors and…
Now that we are a few weeks into spring semester, it's a great time to meet our newest faculty members! They are doing incredible work in research and teaching and are great resources to connect…
Dr. Anisa Kline, who graduated from our department last year, will be giving a TedxOhioStateUniversity talk on the agricultural guestworker economy in Ohio. See more at https://www.linkedin.com…
Veronica O. Davis, author of Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, wrapped up the year’s shared speaker series at CURA and Kirwan with a talk on equity and…
Atmospheric Sciences student, Gavin White, won $100,000 towards tuition and school expenses during the Dr Pepper Tuition Giveaway at the Big 12 Championship in Dallas between the Texas Longhorns…
As part of their National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network grant, Max D. Woodworth and co-PI Jeffrey Jacquet (SENR) are organizing the Conference on Global Coal Transitions for…
Professor Max D. Woodworth has been awarded a Faculty Individual Research Grant by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies for a project titled “Making Taiwan Home: Space, Territory,…
Congratulations to Oluwadamilola Salau who won first place for her research poster at the Translational Data Analytics Institute’s 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum! Dami…
Professor Harvey Miller, director of CURA, has won the International Society for Urban Informatics’ Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his pioneering research in analytical time…
The Ohio State University Alumni Magazine is featuring our very own Associate Professor Jana Houser anwsering a few Weather related questions. Nice job Jana.
Dr. Huyen Le is a collaborator on the FLEETS for All project which has been rewarded with an $11M EPA grant to address Energy Transitions in Underserved Communities.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) GIS Conference 2023
Promoting Collaborations among BTAA Institutions
We would like to announce that the…
Grads and faculty convened this past weekend to enjoy the weather and throw balls at one another! The grads outnumbered faculty by 10:1 and were victorious. But the faculty aka, The Natural…
The OSU Geography 1900 Blimpeteers were at it again this afternoon. Flying the maiden voyage of the new Geography helium Blimp for the Atmospheric profile lab in the Geography…
From the State Climate Office of Ohio.
Check out the State of Ohio Monthly Climate Update for August 2023 to learn about the month's weather patterns and notable events.
Krista reflects on her time in Cyprus with Professor Stavros Constantinou during our May 2023 ‘Sustainability in Cyprus’ study abroad class!
https://oia.osu.edu/units/global…
As you can see from the pictures OSU Geography was well represented by the GBEX Team at the DRONE RODEO hosted by the Center for Aviation Studies…
Heads Up Everyone the Colloquium/Speaker Series Committee has published the 2023-24 Speaker Series Schedule.
Please see our Colloquium web page for more information.
Volunteer Opportunity for Students at GIS Pro
There is an opportunity for students to attend this years GIS Pro in Columbus, Ohio.
Students attending a Ohio university are…
As we get ready for the start of Autumn Semester 2023 please find some time to welcome our new Faculty members,
Theresa Hice-Fromille, 1156 Derby Hall
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Dr. Z. Liu is the successful PI on a second $900,000 NSF grant, with Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson as co-PIs, titled ‘A Model-Data Approach to Better…
Exceptionally good news! Our department will be receiving a Good-to-Great Grant from the Office of Academic Affairs Provost Melissa Gilliam’s office. To the tune…
Dr. Z.Liu has won a $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (PD 06-5740 Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics), as PI, for a project titled ‘Assessing and Understanding…
Student Attending Tuesday Only – Free Registration! This opportunity is for students who are currently enrolled full-time in an accredited undergraduate program with an Ohio college…
Professor Steven Quiring founded StormImpact, an Ohio State University-based startup, in 2022 with co-founders Dr. Brent McRoberts (formerly a Senior Researcher in the Department…
Mathew Coleman, professor and interim chair in the Department of Geography, has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term. An expert in geopolitics, immigration…
Professor Zhengyu Liu comments on a new paper published in Nature Communications which suggests that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—a system of currents that circulates…
Dr. Alvaro Montenegro’s new paper in PLOS ONE (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287290) on ancient canoe voyages and thermoregulation (body temperature)…
“Just out in Political Geography Open Research, an article by current PhD student Paromita Bathija and OSU Geography alum Dr. Nora Sylvander (’19). The…
On Friday June 16, Mat Coleman, Alvaro Montenegro and Jens Blegvad went on an adventure to attempt to preserve some of this extraordinary personal library of our former Geography Professor…
Dr. Jana Houser is storm chasing in Texas and has been able to demonstrate that everything is indeed bigger in Longhorn country! On June 13 Dr. Houser collected a grapefruit-sized chunk of hail…
Columbus Landmarks is recognizing the Center of Urban and Regional Analysis’ Ghost Neighborhoods project (https://cura.osu.edu/projects/existing/ghost-neighborhoods) with the Frederick J…
Dr. Jana Houser spent the week chasing storms in the central US, with a film crew based out of Los Angeles, California. The team was capturing footage for the Hollywood production of Twister 2. Dr…
Anisa’s voyage through grad school, her research, and her love for all things geographical are covered in a new Ohio State News story! See more at https://news.osu.edu/ohio-state-doctoral-students…
Geography's very own, Larkin Cleland! Read in detail Larkin's article in Ohio State Impact about how he follows his many passions and serve the community in the process.
https://www.osu…
We are very excited—and proud—to announce that our very own Kendra McSweeney has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Kendra’s election to the AAA&S…
This spring at the AAG annual meeting in Denver, OSU Geography Graduate Student John Layman was fortunate enough to represent the Ohio State and the Eastern Lakes Division of the…
Grad students put up a tremendous fight, and took up an early dominant lead, but faculty (aka the Natural Disasters) dug deep and came from behind to win 16-15 in Saturday’s game! Big thanks to …
Dr. Houser explains to Newsweek readers why tornadoes are so difficult to predict, even with the advancement of weather-forecasting systems. Read the full story…
Caroline Mallory has been named a Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. Approximately 14 Gaither Fellows are selected each year from a very…
Dr. Emily Cody, who started this semester as our new Assistant to the Chair, has an article out in the journal Women’s Writing on working class motherhood and reproductive politics in…
Professor Houser recounts her first storm chasing experience and explains what needs to be accomplished to improve our understanding of tornado formation. See the full story at https:/…
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Jackie Beck is a recipient of the 2022-23 Graduate Association Leadership Award. This is a highly competitive award that recognizes …
Professor Harvey Miller was featured in Ohio State’s ‘Engaged Scholars’ series for his community-engaged research and teaching. Read an interview with Harvey about the “long view” of community…
Geography Senior Ashley Kuhn advised by Bryan Mark participated in the 2023 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum yesterday.
Ashley's research project topic was, Using…
Professor Dave Bromwich’s research on blowing snow has been funded by the National Science Foundation, as announced by Senator Sherrod Brown (https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release…
PhD candidate Anisa Kline was the featured speaker at H-2A Workers in Ohio: What We Know and Where We're Going. Co-sponsored by OSU's Office of Extension and The…
Jackie Beck (Steven Quiring, advisor) has been recognized by the American Geophysical Union for the work she presented at the December AGU meeting in Chicago, IL. Jackie’s presentation—titled …
The Meteorology Club hosted its first weather symposium on April 11, 1997. Twenty-seven iterations later and we’re still going strong! Recordings from the Feb 10, 2023 event will soon be posted…
The American Geographical Society has released the third volume of its anthology of Black geographers, available online at https://americangeo.org/black-geographers-2011-2020/. Previous AGS…
Dr Huyen Le has won the 2023 Moshe Givoni Prize for her 2022 paper published in Transport Reviews! The paper has been viewed 10,000 times and cited 16 times in 16 months! Read more on the…
PhD student Anisa Kline (Kendra McSweeney, advisor) is the lead author on a new Ohio Commission on Hispanic/Latino Affairs report on seasonal agricultural workers…
On Friday Feb 3, OSU Geography faculty and grad students (including George Ananchev, Paromita Bathija, Kat Finneran, Becky Mansfield and Kendra McSweeney) joined counterparts from Indiana…
Hearty congratulations to Dr. Harvey Miller, who has been appointed as co-chair of a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee charged with better…
Professor Harvey Miller’s ‘Ghost Neighborhoods’ project, which digitally reconstructs Columbus neighborhoods destroyed to make way for the inter-state system,…
Welcome to Ryan Godfrey, our new academic advisor!
The Department of Geography extends a very warm welcome to our new academic planning specialist, Ryan Godfrey! Ryan is…
Professors Steven Quiring and Jana Houser working a career fair table and handing out swag for Ohio State Geography at the 103rd American Meteorological Society…
The American Meteorology Society are having their annual meeting for the 103'rd time Jan. 8-12 2023 and The Ohio State University Department of Geography Atmospheric Sciences…
OSU Geography Associate Professor Stavros Constantinou was recognized recently by the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning for his efforts in building a new…
As part of our 100 Years celebration of being the Dept. of Geography at The Ohio State University geography Professor Ningchuan Xiao put together this illustration of some of our…
On Monday, November 28, Pranav Padmanabhan (Major Geography, Public Health) successfully defended his thesis for a degree of Honors with Research Distinction, “”Get High, Don’t Die”: Radical Care…
OSU Geography at Mansfield faculty member Stavros Constantinou leads the Geography of the European Union and the Challenges of Sustainability global education…
Students from Geography 5501: Urban Spaces in the global economy went for a field trip to Weinland Park to study the neighborhood changes and to interact with the long-time residents to learn…
The State Climatologist of Ohio position has been held for many years by various faculty in the OSU Department of Geography. Dr. Jeff Rogers filled this role for…
Geography 2800: Our Global Environment, Introduction to global environmental issues, including the interaction of physical and social factors in the causes of and strategies for…
Professor Matt Saltzman (Earth Sciences) and Professor Bryan Mark (Geography), hanging with Brutus at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. Professors…
Rojika Sharma, a first year Master’s student in Human Geography was selected 2022-23 Archival Creators Fellow of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Through the
Seeing the Geography Blimp in Action on the Oval today is a sure sign that Autumn Semester is in full swing. Graduate Teaching Assistants Emily Mazan, Lingwei Li and Adam Tjoelker wrangling the…
Every year the American Geophysical Union (AGU) recognizes “ground breaking research or leadership in global environmental change through cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and trans…
Mathew Coleman, professor in the Department of Geography, has been appointed interim chair of the department for a one-year term, effective July 1, 2022. His research examines…
Congratulations to all our graduates for Spring 2022! Enjoy your summer.
Faculty News:
A review of Madhumita Dutta's book, Mobile Girls Koottam —…
Faculty Research Initiative Video Series:
People shape the environment, and the environment shapes people, says Kendra McSweeney, professor of geography…
OSU Geography alumni return to pay respects to Duane Marble. L to R: Libby Wentz, Harvey Miller, Jay Sandhu, Lalita Sen, Darlene Eason and Lin Liu.
Faculty News:
Last…
Women Are Creating Knowledge (WACK), the department's research support group for women, held their first meeting of 2022 on March 22nd. They share food, research connections, and…
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Harvey Miller has received a Community Engaged Scholar Award for his work in transportation, sustainability, social equity, public health,…
Harvey Miller has received a Community Engaged Scholar Award for his work in transportation, sustainability, social equity, public health, infant mortality and…
Faculty News:
Becky Mansfield has a new paper in Antipode - Particulate matters: Trump EPA deregulatory science, fossil fuels,…
Professor Emeritus Duane Marble passed away at the age of 90, surrounded by family.
Obituary.
Dr. Duane F. Marble passed quietly in his sleep Tuesday February 22nd,…
PhD students Sara Moya and SM Ahsanullah write their names in Chinese calligraphy at the Lunar New Year party hosted by the Geography Graduate Organization. Happy…
Emeritus Professor Jay Hobgood studies cyclogenesis aided by computer mapping, 1981. From the Ohio State University Archives.
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Harvey Miller has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Harvey Miller received the honorary title of a 2021 Fellow for the American Association of Geographers (AAG). AAG Fellows are recognized for…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Madhumita Dutta has just published a new book, Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak
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.…
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…
Another great picture of our Geography blimp on the Oval from our Geog 1900 vertical profile lab.
Student News:
Armita Kar (Geog)…
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…
Geography 1900 (Extreme Weather and Climate) prepares for their annual vertical profile lab outside Derby Hall. This aptly labeled blimp has automated weather…
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),…
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…
Summer 2021 Graduation. From left to right: Jialin Li, Sohyun Park, Zhiying Li, Steven Quiring and Yuechun Wang.
Faculty News:
Max Woodworth's work…
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, Xiaoyu…
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,…