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This past year, Ohio State students participated in the UN-endorsed Local Conference of Youth, where they helped draft the National Youth Statement on Climate. Applications to be a 2025 LCOY delegate are due June 1. Read more about the experience & apply: si.osu.edu/news/ohio-stat…

Our Glacier Photograph Collection is an online, searchable collection of photos of glaciers, mostly taken in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Greenland, between the mid-1800s and present day. Find glacier photos: nsidc.org/data/glacier_p…

Check out a new edition of ChemMatters featuring Byrd Center Principal Investigator Emilie Beaudon. In the article, "The Frozen Past," Dr. Beaudon discusses the chemistry behind ice core paleoclimatology and the need to preserve Earth's melting glaciers: bit.ly/4kqpvHj

Congratulations to Forrest Schoessow on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on April 28! His research was completed through the Department of Geography and the Byrd Center's Glacier Environmental Change group research group. 👏Well done, Forrest! bit.ly/451mAAE

📚 In-person event at Clintonville Books TODAY🐧Sat., May 31, 5–6 PM! Join Dr. Ellen Arnold (OSU History) on a voyage through time & learn how early European explorers first encountered penguins. Free & open to the public. Clintonville Books in Columbus. bit.ly/3SMbmZ9

🌍The glacier collapse and subsequent landslide in Switzerland on May 28 prompts new warnings! Byrd Center's Dr. Lonnie Thompson told AP: "The instability of these glaciers is a real and growing problem… thousands and thousands of people are at risk."🔗 bit.ly/43VaiIM

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🌍❄️ Why Ohio? As she prepares for her summer fellowship at the Byrd Center, Dr. Marissa Grunes (CU Boulder), this year's Polar Archives Research Award recipient, explores why so much polar history is in Ohio, & how Antarctica's Ohio Range got its name. 🔗 bit.ly/4ku0ETB

🌍 June 5 is World Environment Day! This year's theme: Ending Plastic Pollution ♻️ 🌐 400M+ tonnes of plastic are produced yearly, half for single use, and less than 10% is recycled. Let's rethink plastic for a cleaner, healthier planet. 🌱 🔗 bit.ly/3eMsWXg

JUST IN: Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have peaked for the year at 430.5 ppm.📈 This is 3.6 ppm higher than last year and the second largest May-May increase in the 67-year Mauna Loa record. In 2023, the CO2 peaked at 424 ppm. 🔗: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

June 8 is World Oceans Day! Did you know The ocean generates over 50% of the Earth's oxygen and is home to the majority of the planet's biodiversity? bit.ly/3fmsJgK

📣 Attention Educators: Join the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education (July 14–15, 2025 + a regional day July 16th or 17th) to gain tools, resources & support for teaching climate change across subjects. 🌍 🔗 Learn more & register: bit.ly/48NZxYk

A recent published study, led by Byrd Center PI John Olesik & researcher Stanislav Kutuzov, focused on improving nanoparticle & microparticle measurement using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, a tool used in environmental & materials research. bit.ly/45c7R5U

In her latest blog post, “The Birth of Cool at OSU,” Dr. Marissa Grunes takes us back to the days when Ohio State first welcomed the physicist, glaciologist, and polar explorer Colin Bull, from his start in England to his groundbreaking work at OSU. bit.ly/3FRrqpF

Congratulations to Melisa Diaz for being named the 2025–2027 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar for her work in the Polar Geochemistry Lab at The Ohio State University! Learn more here: bit.ly/3Zs2ewP CIFAR #CIFARGlobalScholar #PolarScience #ScienceLeadership

Save the date for WestFest 2025! 🎉 Join us for Ohio State’s West Campus Science & Sustainability Festival — a day of discovery, fun, and hands-on learning for all ages. 📅 Learn more: bit.ly/4ktdQYQ

Join CURA & the Ohio State Library Research Commons for the upcoming webinar: "Sustaining Future Historians: The Case for Preserving Ephemeral Geospatial Data" with Karen Majewicz. Online via Zoom, Friday, June 20, 2025, 12PM ET 🖥️ bit.ly/43Dqey8

Stephanie Konfal Sherman, David Saddler, and Terry Wilson participated in the 2025 Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Workshop in Sidney, BC, Canada. Below is a link to more photos and information of the POLENET team at the workshop: bit.ly/4n939fw

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how NOAA temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. NOAA NCEI Ed Hawkins

Discover how climate change impacts your health in Harvard University’s Health Effects of Climate Change. Audit free or earn a certificate in a 7-week self-paced program. Open until Aug. 27, 2025. ▶️ bit.ly/455rqg7 ✏️ bit.ly/4kmS1dj