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Geography professor’s startup in the news!
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 of Geography at…
Coleman appointed chair of Department of Geography
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 and the geography…
Professor Zhengyu Liu in the news on a possible major tipping point in the Earth’s climate system
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 warm and…
From Tahiti to New Zealand with Alvaro Montenegro
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) shows…
Article in Political Geography Open Research by PhD student Paromita Bathija and alum Dr. Nora Sylvander
“Just out in Political Geography Open Research, an article by current PhD student Paromita Bathija and OSU Geography alum Dr. Nora Sylvander (’19). The article, “Conservation regimes of exclusion…
Geography Emeriti Emilio Casetti Estate
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 Emilio…
Grapefruit-sized hail in Texas!
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—…
CURA wins the Frederick J. Holdridge Outstanding Group Award
Columbus Landmarks is recognizing the Center of Urban and Regional Analysis’ Ghost Neighborhoods project (https://cura.osu.edu/projects/existing/ghost-neighborhoods) with the …
Dr. Jana Houser goes to Hollywood?
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…