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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…