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Congratulations to Professors Z. Liu, Ellen Mosley Thompson and Lonnie Thompson
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 Understand Paleoclimate…
Dr. Jana Houser wins phenomenal Good-to-Great Grant from the Office of Academic Affairs
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 of $1,750,000—to purchase and…
Congratulations to Professor Z. Liu
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 Oceanic Climate…
Ohio GIS Conference 2023 - Free registration for Students on Tuesday September 12th
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 or university.…
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…