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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.
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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…
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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)
See more in this article from OSU News
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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,…
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Harvey Miller was mentioned in a Wired article, "America’s ‘Smart City’ Didn’t Get Much Smarter."
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Sunrise from this morning. You may have noticed a more orange Ohio sunset and sunrise the last days, this is due to smoke in the atmosphere from Canadian wildfires.
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Desheng Liu is a coauthor on a paper about the urban heat island effect recently published in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems…
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Becky Mansfield is co-author on a new publication in the Annals of the AAG: The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and…
Spring 2021 Student Awards:
Gary L. Sharpe Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates who Graduated from an Ohio High School
Jason Hynes
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The first blog entry in our Summer Research Spotlight by newly-minted PhD Dr. Ariel Rawson.
Student News:
Sher Ali Khan…
The flowers outside of Bricker Hall survived the April snow earlier this week.
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Zhengyu Liu was featured in the Voices of…
Laurel Bayless of Athens, Ohio, is graduating with honors Spring Semester with a major in Physical Geography and a minor in Spanish. In her last two years, she has served as an…
Congratulations to Kendra McSweeney Professor Department of Geography.
On Friday Kendra was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award via Zoom meeting.
Kendra McSweeney is an…
On April 9'th the Meteorology Club had their 25'th Annual Severe Weather Symposium and it was completely virtual for the first time.
This week's geography blog entry by guest blogger Lei Xu.
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Stavros Constantinou (OSU Mansfield) gave an invited presentation, "The…
This week's Geography blog entry. Aquaculture Food Systems. By Rebecca Chapman PhD. Student.
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Harvey Miller was…
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Mat Coleman was interviewed about ‘Teaching Race While White’ for the Woke Pedagogies: An Arts and Sciences Approach to Excellence in…
This week's Geography blog written by Jill Clark
Faculty News:
Madhumita Dutta has a jointly authored piece in Economic &…
This week's blog post by Sohyun Park
Faculty News:
Madhumita Dutta is giving a talk next week at the Advanced…
In collaboration with scientists at Rutgers University and other institutions, Prof. Zhengyu Liu published a paper in Nature this week (“Seasonal origin for the Holocene and last…
Planed lineup of the Graduate Colloquium presentations for Spring 2021:
All presentations will be online and the detailed information about the logistics will be circulated later.
Our theme for Spring Semester Geography blog is "Food Systems and the Food-Water-Energy-Nexus."
Faculty News:
Affiliated faculty member Linda Lobao…
Ready to start your career path or discover an exciting internship? The Spring Career Fair is January 27 on Handshake, & registration is REQUIRED for the fair AND for the individual or group…
Crossword puzzle in honor of Morton O'Kelly's retirement from OSU, made by Rachel Franklin.
Student News:
Guillermo…
The College of Arts and Sciences' December issue of its magazine entitled "Ascent."
Bryan Mark and Aaron Wilson…
Rounding out our series this semester on the theme Census 2020, we have two final blog entries.
2020 Autumn Dept. of Geography Awards and Graduation Ceremony.
Friday, December 11th 1 pm.
Faculty News:
Geography Professor and Max…
Geography Professor and Max Thomas Professor of Climate Dynamics Zhengyu Liu among this years Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. Every…
This week's blog post by our alumna Renuka Bhaskar.
Faculty News:
Morton O'Kelly is retiring effective December 31st. We will have…
This week's Geography blog post.
Faculty News:
Becky Mansfield published a paper "Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA," in…
David Bromwich and Jerry Zou's Year of Polar Prediction project produced an important publication this month.
Photo Credit: Météo France
Faculty…
PhD students Rebecca Chapman and Anisa Kline participate in a socially-distanced lunch on the Oval.
Student News:
Real-time public…
Course Design Institute (CDI) for Education Abroad Courses, SP 2020. Stavros Constantinou is bottom left, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. See bigger picture below.
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Our first colloquium speaker this year is Robyn Wilson, SENR
Faculty News:
Jennifer Clark (Section Head, City and Regional Planning, Geography…
The Department of Geography Speaker Series has come out with a partial program.
This Season we are going virtual with our presentations. Please see the Colloquium/Speaker Series Page for…
Original artwork by Olivia Forsyth.
Faculty News:
A recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Zhengyu Liu in…
This year's "Meet & Greet" for faculty, staff and students happened over Zoom. We did discover a lot of heavy metal fans among our community.
Faculty News:
Back to campus! Geography Main Office, Derby 1036.
Faculty News:
Becky Mansfield is co-Principal Investigator on a new grant from the
Our staff have reconfigured our computer labs per social distancing guidelines.
Faculty News:
Madhumita Dutta, together with the rest of the…
Geography procedures for our safe return to campus.
and
Further information about Derby Hall Reopening.
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Aiuan Kkota reservoir in July (a), and December (b), 2016. The reservoir dried out as a consequence of the El Niño 2016. Photo credits: Gabriel…
“Before-and-After” Pieces of the Climate Change Puzzle in Bolivia
From this week's blog post. Comic illustration of faculty member Madhumita Dutta’s field notes by artist Madhushree Basu for Dutta’s forthcoming book Mobile Girls Koottam…
We the Department of Geography wanted to reach out to the members of our community at this difficult time, after weeks of protests and police violence in cities all over the country.
These…
Emilio Mateo (Geog PhD candidate) writes about his work in the Peruvian Andes in this week's blog, A Path to Fieldwork.
Faculty News:
Professor of…
Screenshot from OSU Geography's interactive COVID dashboard (story below).
Faculty News:
Kendra McSweeney published a paper in the International…
PhD Candidate Sohyun Park is quarantined in Goyang City (outside of Seoul), South Korea for two weeks after arriving for the summer from the U.S. The local government issued her…
50 people attended our virtual Spring Departmental Awards and Graduation Reception. Congratulations, graduates!
Faculty News:
The Sustainability Institute produced a…
Derby Hall. (Photo credit: Jens Blegvad).
Faculty News:
Jialin Lin was featured in a College of Arts and Science news story “Solving…
The College of Arts and Sciences featured our associate Professor Elizabeth Root who is actively participating in research related to the COVID-19 crisis.
Please read more…
Faculty News:
Yue Qin published a paper in Nature Climate Change that examined how agriculture producers in parts of the western United States…
Are you bored with your Zoom background? Download one of the Ohio State backgrounds for Zoom, like this one of the Oval.
Faculty News:
Bridget Freisthler…
Alex McCarthy (second from left) (MS, ASP 2017) with health officials and first responders during a training exercise on local implementation of the National Incident Management…
Jacob Ferrell won third place in the category, Human Experiences at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in early March for "Historicizing Change in 20th Century Belizean…
Geog 7101, Research Design, meets over Zoom, with guest speaker Madhumita Dutta.
Online Shift:
Beginning Monday, March 23rd, OSU moved to online…
PhD Candidate Sam Kay is studying Beijing's citywide “greening” efforts, which include regulations to cover walls surrounding construction sites with artificial grass. (Photo…
Members of the OSU Department of Geography presented at the 10th annual meeting of the Dimensions of Political Ecology, at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. Graduate…
Renowned regional scientist T. R. Lakshmanan passed away last month. Lakshmanan received his PhD and an honorary degree from Ohio State. Along with his various other…
The 24th Annual Severe Weather Symposium took place on Friday February 14, 2020 at the US Bank Conference Theater in the Ohio Union. The presentations given are available…
Kenneth Madsen, Associate Professor, Geography, "Trump is trampling dozens of laws to build his border wall," quoted in Slate, article.
Congratulations are in order for the OSU Meteorology Club for executing another chapter of our long standing Annual Severe Weather Symposium. This was the 24’Th year of the…
Caption: Pictured (left to right) Alvaro Montenegro and Sreya Juras prepare sweet potato seeds to simulate long-distance sea travel. Photo credit: John…
The GBEX (Great Basin research Experience) group activities in Great Basin National Park have been written up in a January VIEW ON MAGAZINE article.
The article is available on…
The Oval on the first snowy day of 2020.
Faculty News:
Madhumita Dutta is on the Editorial Board of the Global Labour Journal that just…
Happy Year of the Rat! From Derby 1066, Graduate Geography Organization's Lunar New Year Party 2020. Photo credit: Polina Berezina.
Faculty News:
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Department of Geography Autumn Reception, 2019. Our outstanding students (left to right): Claire Mercer, (Lewis Family Scholarship), Kendall Brooks (BA-URGS, AU19…
OSU faculty and alumni attend the recent conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in in Antigua, Guatemala. From left to right: Zoe Pearson (PhD, Geography 2016),
Geographers at the AGU meetings. From left to right, Lonnie Thompson (School of Earth Sciences), Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Stacy Porter (PhD ASP,…
At the Autumn Geography Department Awards and Graduation Reception on December 13, 2019, the department presented awards to our outstanding Students.
Undergraduate Awards:…
Faculty, staff and students all enjoy lunch during our annual Holiday Party.
Faculty News:
Joel Wainwright published a paper in Cartographica
Flashback to April 6 when Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, Friends and Family of our great department gathered in Washington DC this past Spring for the annual AAG conference. AAG 2019…
Globe-trotting geography PhD student Forrest Schoessow is studying climate change in Andean glaciers.
Arts and Sciences Special writeup about our PhD student Forrest…
Zhiying Li (PhD candidate, ASP) presenting her research with Ning Zhang, Xun (Jerry) Zou and Steven Quiring at the Translational…
Faculty members Kendra McSweeney and Gil Latz (vice provost for global strategies and international affairs) attended the recent dinner for the Global Leadership…
Naomi Adaniya (MA Public Health 2010, MA Geog 2013, Ph.D. Public Health 2016) is a Policy Analyst in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division Fraud Section. Her primary…
Aaron Wilson (PhD 2013, ASP) hosts a booth at the Farm Science Review to answer questions on weather and climate’s implications for Ohio agriculture.
Faculty News: …
Geog 1900 (Extreme Weather and Climate) launching the Geography Blimp on the Oval as part of the atmospheric profile lab.
Faculty News:
Enlightening article in ScienceMag about how the dynamic high altitude environment is changing quickly due to global warming.
Geography Professor Bryan Mark and OSU Geography…
Morton O'Kelly, professor of geography and divisional dean for the social and behavioral sciences at The Ohio State University College of the Arts and Sciences, is fascinated by…
PhD candidate in Geography Gabriel Zeballos-Castellon conducted fieldwork in July with partners from the University of San Andres, Utrecht University, and the French Institute of…
Xiaolin Zhu (PhD, Geog 2014) and Desheng Liu at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society meeting in Yokohama, Japan, in August
Student News: …
GBEX (Great Basin research Experience) is an annual physical geography field research excursion to Great Basin National Park. From left to right, Bryan Mark, Jim DeGrand…
Jim DeGrand and Christine Biermann (PhD, Geography, 2014) at the North American DendroEcological Fieldweek in Wyoming, in July.
Faculty News:…
CURA organized a workshop this week at the STEAM Factory, New Mobility and Cities.
Faculty News:
Earlier this week, the
OSU Geographers attend the Urban China Research Network 2019 conference in Nanjing, China. (Lili Wang, Max Woodworth, Sam Kay).
You may notice that my closing title has changed from Interim…
OSU Mansfield professor Stavros Constantinou and his study abroad class, Geog 3753.02, Geography of the European Union on the steps of the EU offices in Nicosia,…
PhD student Sohyun Park is spending her summer studying the role of "breeder's rights" (patenting modified seeds) on the adoption of hydroponic-based farming systems in the South…
Alumnus James White double majored in Earth sciences and Atmospheric Sciences in 2019. His research involved two separate projects — one that focuses on wildfires in the tundra…
Harvey Miller, director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) and the Bob and Mary Reusche Chair in Geography, was recently reappointed director of CURA, pending…
Research and Innovation Showcase photo from April 24, 2019. From left to right, Scott Osborne (Interim Vice President, Economic and Corporate Engagement), Tim Raderstorf (College of Nursing), …
Geography Awards and Graduation Reception. Graduate student awards from left to right: Jenny McGibbon (Rayner), Rohit Mukherjee (Lakshmanan Chatterjee),
At the annual Geography Department Awards and Graduation Reception on May 3, 2019, the department presented awards to our outstanding Faculty, Staff and Students.
Our new Chair Dr. …
On Wednesday, April 17th we welcomed 20 new members into the Gamma Theta Upsilon International Honor Society for Geography.
Pictured left to right:
Front Row: Tianrun Jiang,…
OSU Alumni Party at the 2019 AAG. From left to right: Christine Biermann, Zoe Pearson, Naomi Adaniya, Sandy Wong, Lauren Hines, Jonathan Rush and Justine Law.
Faculty News:…
Elisabeth Root is part of a team that was awarded a $65.9M NIH grant to address the opioid crisis in Ohio. This is such wonderful news, for our department, for OSU and the state…
Spring is in full bloom in Washington, D.C.
Faculty News:
Kendra McSweeney and coauthors have published a paper in PNAS, Modeling cocaine…
If you missed the 23'rd Annual Severe Weather Symposium put on by our undergraduate Meteorology Club here is a link to Recordings of the Presentations, Enjoy.
It's relatively quiet in Derby Hall, as many of us prepare for our upcoming American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. next week.
AAG Alumni Party 2010, Washington,…
The following has been sent on behalf of Dean Morton O’Kelly
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Darla Munroe has accepted…
Harvey Miller presents as part of the panel at "Ohio’s Opiate Epidemic: Impacts and Innovations," featuring Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: the True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic.…
The newley overhauled Pomerene Hall provided the framework for this years Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. The Department of Geography had 4 undergraduates selected, 2 Geography Majors and two…
Kenneth Madsen, associate professor, geography, " A closed border gate has cut off three Tohono O'odham villages from their closest food supply," Pacific Standard…
Trucks, buses, autonomous cars, scooters and bikes: everyone is crowding onto roadways. Professor and Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science in the Department of Geography Harvey…
The team at the French-Italian Dome Concordia station launching weather balloon as part of the Year of Polar Prediction in the Southern Hemisphere (Credit: Massimo Gervasi)
Faculty…
Congratulations to Geography BA/BS graduates, AU 2018.
Top Row: Dominique Marshall, Daniel Tharp, Wyatt Wortkoetter, Andrea Stanic, Jacob Dubin and Nathaniel Zahniser
Bottom Row: Courtney…
I hope everyone has had a happy, healthy and productive semester.
Kendra McSweeney peeks into a package at last year's White Elephant gift exchange. Photo: Morton O'Kelly, see full picture…
Brianna Cunningham (BS student in GIS) in Cyprus as part of the study abroad course, GEOG 3753.02 (Geography of the European Union) see story and further links below..
…
New Arts and Sciences podcast features faculty experts
The College of Arts and Sciences is quickly establishing a base for its weekly podcast, “Voices of Excellence,” which…
Faculty News:
Harvey Miller was a Team Mentor in the THRIVE Columbus Transportation Innovation Weekend during November 16-18. The event was a rapid problem…
Professor Ola Ahlqvist stands with Professor Gil Latz, incoming Vice Provost of Global Strategies and International Affairs. Photo: Maeve Scully.
Faculty News:
GIS Alumna Lindsay Hostetler, Script Ohio "i-dotter." Source: Kevin Leonardi
Faculty News
Steven Quiring ran a workshop in the Sharpe Innovation…
Forrest Schoessow received a Fall 2018 Innovation Award from the OSU College of Nursing's Office of Innovation for contributions (inventions/techniques) to public health and…
Lots of news this week!
Desheng Liu is currently visiting the Department of Geography at the University of Concepción in Chile this week. During his visit, he worked with…
We are delighted to announce that our 2018 Geospectrum Newsletter has arrived.
Happy Fall Break! I took the opportunity to come back down to Laurelville, and Glouster, Ohio to interview community members about forest-community development connections (USDA-AFRI funded…
We are pleased to report that Rohit Mukherjee passed his PhD candidacy exam this week. His committee members are Alvaro Montenegro, Rongjun Qin (Civil,…
Thanks to everyone who made the events surrounding the opening of the Sharpe Innovation Commons a success! This was the culmination of a lot of hard work, vision and collaboration…
Arts and Sciences News article about Geography alum and former FDNY dispatcher reflecting on lessons from Ohio State.
The Department is proud to present the 2018-19 Speaker Series.
GLOBAL AFRICA
is the theme for our series of interresting presentations lined up for 2018-19.
Visit our
Some alumni news
ASC Marketing and Communications recently published a story about alumnus Mike Bettes (BS, atmospheric sciences, 1995), who has enjoyed an adventurous…
Aaron Wilson (former ASP PhD and member of the State Climate Office of Ohio) is widely quoted in an article in today’s Dispatch about Ohio’s changing…
Harvey Miller who is currently Down Under at GIScience 2018, but on this side of the globe, Columbus Dispatch readers got some of his thoughts on benefits to…
Kenneth Madsen, associate professor, geography at OSU Newark Campus, Is putting on an upcoming art exhibit that will showcase different barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico…
Harvey Miller, Reusche Chair in Geographic Information Science
and director, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, “How ‘green’ are the e-scooters?”
Tuesday is the first day of classes! Enjoy your last weekend of summer.
Kendra McSweeney was awarded a grant from the Mershon Center for International Security…
The new academic year will be upon us very soon. The predictable U-Hauls and people lugging boxes are starting to pop up in neighborhoods surrounding campus.
Max Woodworth…
Hello, everyone, I hope you are enjoying your last few weeks before the semester kicks off again on August 21st.
Caitlin Naber has accepted a new position in the Department…
This is a quiet week in Derby. I hope everyone is having a happy and productive summer.
Just one piece of news: recent PhD graduate Minkyung Koh is leaving Columbus next…
When recent graduate Rebecca Rose Martin first came to Ohio State, she knew she wanted to do research, but needed a little time to decide on a major. After trying biology and…
This is my final edition of Departmental news. It has been a privilege to serve as chair. I will be moving to University Hall on Monday, but I hope to continue to hear from you as studies and…
I am pleased to announce that Darla Munroe has accepted the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Geography for a one year term beginning July 1. Darla will be returning…
We are pleased to report that Stephen Shield successfully defended his thesis this morning. Thesis is titled, “Predictive Modeling of Thunderstorm-Related Power Outages”…
I propose and start a new occasional feature of these updates: brief mention of geographical areas that we may want to learn more from (send me your own examples!)
A look at a country you…
Atmospheric Sciences Program alumni Mike Bettes, host of the show Weather Underground and Kevin Petty, Chief Science Officer at Vaisala…
We have signed a large number of GTA/GRA renewals, and grads should watch for these in docusign. Thanks to Caitlin Naber for the careful work that goes into getting these letters…
Our global reach is very prominent this week
Darla Munroe is currently in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, attending the annual meeting of the Scientific Steering Committee …
Congratulations to our alumnus Michael Davis.
Michael has been awarded tunure at Kutztown University.
Dr. Davis did a PhD with us in the Atmospheric Sciences program in…
Madhu Dutta’s paper titled ‘‘Becoming’ factory workers: Understanding women’s geographies of work through life stories’ was accepted for publication in Gender, Place and…
Jordan Pino and Steven Quiring were featured in a NASA documentary on the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite mission (SMAP). In the documentary, Steven talks…
On Friday May 4'th the Department conducted the annual Graduation and Awards ceremony at the Faculty club.
We would like to thank all who participated and give a summary of the awards and…
Congratulations to Ning Zhang who has been awarded The Presidential Fellowship by the Graduate School.
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious…
With my apologies for late notice on this:
Congratulations to Megan McHaney who successfully defended her Master's thesis on April 18. Her thesis was titled "Intra-Hospital…
Congratulations to Laura Rivas who passed her M.A. defense this afternoon, with flying colors! Laura’s thesis (‘Mobility, Labor Management and Citizenship Regimes: The…
Ning Zhang has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship and research ability and provides recipients the opportunity to devote…
Please join us in congratulating Megan Jones who easily passed her M.S. thesis defense in Atmospheric Science this morning (Thursday). Megan’s topic was “Sixty years of widespread…
Hope all are safely back from a productive visit to the AAG. Now, we are getting ready for the final week of the semester. Tuesday next is ‘reading day.’
With apologies for overlooking this…
Please join us in congratulating Megan McHaney who successfully defended her Master's thesis this morning. Her thesis was titled "Intra-Hospital Transfers and the Associated Risk…
Greetings from New Orleans @ the AAG.
Ganesha Chandrasa successfully defended his MS thesis last week. Ganesha’s thesis title is “Evaluation of Regional Climate Model…
Please join us in congratulating Ganesha Chandrasa on the successful defense of his MS thesis earlier today!
Ganesha’s thesis title is “Evaluation of Regional Climate Model…
Minkyung Koh successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Marriage Migration of Women and Making a Multicultural Society in South Korea. Her committee consists of …
Please join us in congratulating Minkyung Koh, who has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Marriage Migration of Women and Making a Multicultural Society in South…
Please join us in congratulating Hui Kong who has successfully defended her dissertation this afternoon, Understanding and Designing the Development of Chinese Cities:
Towards…
We regret the late cancellation of today’s visiting speaker Rinku Roy Chowdhury, due to illness, we will be looking to reschedule.
Jim DeGrand informs me that OSU’s…
Ohio State announced the winners of more than $1 million in grants to fuel research to help combat the opioid epidemic. Eight teams were awarded grants, including one led by …
We are sorry to have to cancel our last Speaker Series Presentation with Rinku Roy Chowdhury this Friday afternoon.
The event-visit was cancelled due to illness.
Lots of news to catch up on this week.
The department, with outstanding input from Mat Coleman and Suzanne Mikos, recently made a…
We are busily wrapping up the week here before a very welcome Spring Break. Those of you on travel will undoubtedly have a major temperature shock as you move away from wintry Ohio.
As reported in College News, our colleague Jay Hobgood has been in the news explaining two aspects of Ohio weather:
"So, yeah, Tuesday was spring. Now, it's winter again…
A great week with many diverse achievements!
Current graduate student Jinhyung Lee and Harvey Miller have had their paper come out (in near record time!) in…
Max Woodworth was at Northwestern University’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities on February 12 to deliver a talk titled “Picturing ruin in images of China’s ‘ghost cities…
Becky Mansfield visited Florida International University, in Miami, last week. She gave a talk in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies (it’s a department that…
Forrest Schoessow (Bryan Mark adviser) was featured on Japanese national television this week on the much-loved show "Denjirou" which is essentially like Japan's …
Stephen Shield (GRA, Steven Quiring adviser) recently presented at the Ninth Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy…
Becky Mansfield spoke at a press conference hosted by Defending Our Future, which is a project of the Environmental Defense Fund focusing on climate change. The focus is…
Hope everyone is holding up during the bitterly cold weather.
Despite the local cold snap, please see the recent news on the status of global temperature in 2017 from NASA as reported in the …
We are sad to report the passing of our dear friend and colleague Emilio Casetti. Emilio was an exceptionally influential member of the department, and my personal memories are of…
Bonnie Bounds passed the oral portion of her doctoral qualifying exam this week, and is now admitted to Ph.D. candidacy. Her committee consisted of Nancy Ettlinger, Darla…
2017 OSU Geography Alumni Zach Paganini's Masters Thesis work on flooding in Canarsie was mentioned in the New York Times this past weekend. The article, In New York, Drawing Flood Maps Is…
Welcome to the New Year and best wishes for a successful 2018 to everyone.
Once again please join me in welcoming a new member of undergraduate advising staff: Jocelyn Nevel…
A new book co-edited by Ola Ahlqvist and Christoph Schlieder, entitled Geogames and Geoplay: Game-based Approaches to the Analysis of Geo-Information,…
Lots of news this week reflecting faculty and graduate student engagement:
Kendra McSweeney published a co-authored opinion piece in the Washington Post this week…
Congratulations this week to two geographers for their prize winning entries in the International Affairs photography competition.
Our undergraduate Senior and GIS…
Happy Thanksgiving
Some news from our graduate Shiguo Jiang (PhD, 2012; Desheng Liu adviser). His department at the State University of New York at Albany…
We begin this week with some terrific news for our Undergraduate Adviser Nancy Coscia. Nancy has earned a Doctorate of Education in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D.) from Indiana…
Inés Valdez, assistant professor of political science, and Mat Coleman, associate professor of geography, discuss immigration enforcement programs — Secure…
A great week for national and international impact.
Harvey Miller has had a busy week in England. As well as lectures at CASA (University College London), and Leicester, he…
Please join us in congratulating Ms. Xun (Jerry) Zou who passed her combined MS. thesis defense/Ph.D. qualifying exam in Atmospheric Science this morning. The committee consisted of Professors Jay…
Faculty and students (including Becky Mansfield and Kendra McSweeney) will continue the new tradition of a joint Kentucky/Ohio/Indiana political ecology workshop…
International News, Research, and Travels
Darla Munroe is in Maresias, Brazil for the third annual meeting of the Belmont Forum funded project “Land Use and…
A response piece by Deondre Smiles was published in the Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, Minnesota) this week. The piece is entitled “In Response: From one millennial to…
Max Woodworth is in Kandersteg, Switzerland, today (Friday) and tomorrow for a workshop which he co-organized with Dr. Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi of the University of Bern. The…
Together with his student and a team of collaborators, Zhengyu Liu published his first paper with OSU affiliation in the October 2nd issue of Proceeding of National Academy of…
Darla Munroe has just published Effects of Land Use in Oxford Bibliographies. This interesting format presents bibliographic references under a series of related topics…
Desheng Liu gave a keynote speech at the Third International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services in Wuhan, China. The title of the talk…
I am pleased to note the publication of a third paper from the dissertation of Ying Song (PhD 2015; Harvey Miller adviser). It is entitled: “Green…
The State Climatologist of Ohio, Bryan Mark paticipated in a forum discussing the impacts of Climate Change on Ohio.
Here is a Columbus Dispatch article about…
Lots of exciting developments this week:
Deondre Smiles (Kendra McSweeney, adviser) was elected Secretary of the Board of the AAG's Indigenous Peoples…
Well, two weeks have flown by already.
The July print version of National Geographic has a piece on the work Alvaro Montenegro has completed in PNAS on Polynesia.…
Welcome back everyone and welcome to all our new students. This is a weekly tradition in the Geography Department: we send news and items of general interest to the department. We also are in the…
We are delighted to report that Dan D’Amico has successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late Ordovician and…
Please join us in congratulating Dan D’Amico who earlier today successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late…
I am delighted to report that our new colleague Madhumita Dutta will be arriving, as planned, near the beginning of the new term. Her office will be 1049A beside Ola…
Lots of news with an interdisciplinary flavor this week. Anurag Mazumdar (adviser: Nancy Ettlinger) has published a book review on: Undervalued Dissent: Informal…
Lots of great developments this week. Good news from Desheng Liu: he has received official notification from NSF of a new award. This is for collaborative research on: Hydrologic…
The intrepid Great Basin team returned from a soggy trip to the field. Unusual to get rain there, but so it was. Here is what the National Park Service says about…
Daniel Sui, professor, geography, is co-author of the article, “True lies in geospatial big data: detecting location spoofing in social media,” published in the Jan. 31, 2017…
Bonnie Bounds spent last week in L'Aquila, Italy for a week-long economic geography summer school. It was hosted by the Gran Sasso Science Institute for PhD students and early…
A big week for departmental publications!
Kendra McSweeney’s research team just published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that is featured in a Science…
Elisabeth Root has received word of funding for her seed grant proposal: "Characterizing Communities Vulnerable to Opioid Addiction” from the IPR Leadership Committee. OSU…
This weeks update comes a day early, from Boston!
Ed Malecki is in Dublin to present a paper at the Regional Studies Association annual conference, hosted by…
John Agnew, (PhD, 1976), UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oulu in Finland. The University of Oulu is one of…
Associate Professor of Geography Dr. Elisabeth Root featured in a DISCOVERY Theme Talk, see the Talk here:
New Weapons for Hospital-acquired…
We are pleased to announce that Zachary Leasor successfully defended his thesis this morning. His thesis is titled “Spatiotemporal Variations of Drought Persistence in the South…
Continuing with the great work ASC is doing to highlight our faculty:
Elisabeth Root is featured in a discussion of Women in STEM. She researches and teaches at the…
Elisabeth Dowling Root, associate professor of geography and epidemiology, wants to know why people get sick — by uncovering as much information as possible.
Arts and…
Steven Quiring’s work is featured in the May/June edition of the OSU Alumni Magazine. The article is titled “Big data for good” and it is about TDA-related research…
“Climate change poses a major challenge to Ohio agriculture, which is why the new State Climate Office of Ohio (SCOO), a team of experts from the Department of Geography and the Byrd Polar and…
I am pleased to pass on the good news that Max Woodworth has received a positive 4th year review in a letter from Executive Dean Manderscheid. In addition Max is…
Kendra McSweeney's research on drug trafficking and forests (a new article published in Environmental Research Letters) has been written up in The Guardian
A really impressive set of news for this week:
The college held a celebration lunch for the 2017 Huber awardees. I was pleased to be there with Becky Mansfield, along with…
This morning WOSU broadcast a story about the future plans for a 35 story building situated next to the North Market in Columbus.
Our very own Hal Moellering was on the spot…
On Friday May 5'th the Department conducted the annual Graduation and Awards ceremony at the Faculty club.
We would like to thank all who participated and give a summary of the awards and…
We begin this week with some great news for our graduates. Austin Kocher successfully defended his Ph.D. Dissertation this Wednesday. Austin’s dissertation is titled ‘Notice…
Please join us in congratulating Zhiqi Yu who successfully passed his Masters exam this morning. Zhiqi’s research paper is titled “Absolute and Relative Location Information…
Congratulations to Dr. Austin Kocher for having successfully defended his Ph.D. yesterday afternoon! Austin’s dissertation is titled ‘Notice to Appear: Immigration Courts and the…
First this week some terrific news. I am very pleased to announce that Debangana Bose has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School. This fellowship…
Please join us in congratulating Alex McCarthy on the successful defense of his master's thesis. His thesis is titled "Convective Cores in Continental and Oceanic Thunderstorms:…
As Chair of the Executive Committee for the journal (along with Art Getis, Mike Goodchild, Ed Malecki, and Bill Clark) I am delighted to announce a truly path…
One of the great aspects of the AAG annual meeting, completed a few weeks ago, was the opportunity to meet and say hello to our recent grads. Everyone has their own circle of course, but I was…