Check out WestFest! Later today - Tuesday, Oct 12 - we have: ► 2:30-3:00 pm – Campus Energy, by ENGIE ► 4:30-5:00 pm – Water, Climate, Conservation, by Columbus GreenSpot ► 6:00-7:00 pm – Virtual Tour of the Byrd Center, by the Byrd Center go.osu.edu/WestFest?utm_c… #OSUWestFest

Join scientists as they explore a lake 3,000 ft beneath Antarctic ice through our newest virtual trip! Thanks to Salsa Antarctica for 360 video, The Lake at the Bottom of the World for footage, and Adelyn Arens & @EarthSciGard for building the trip. virtualice.byrd.osu.edu/salsa/

Corey Wallace Coauthored a Paper on Subsurface Nitrogen Dynamics in Water Resources Research Learn more: buff.ly/3mmGzCG #GeosyntecNews

COMING SOON TO A SCREEN NEAR YOU: Daniel Hamilton has been scanning carefully-selected fossils and igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock samples from the Polar Rock Repository to create a virtual rock box. Enjoy a collection of 3D samples here: byrd.osu.edu/virtual-rock-b…

Join us Wednesday, January 26 at Noon for the Tree-Ring Talk by Kira Harris Kira Harris on Using Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs) for Science Communication and Outreach. Zoom only: buff.ly/2ZkasrF

A VERY happy Friday afternoon - my AGU talk won an OSPA award!! A huge thanks to the reviewers that spent time watching and providing feedback. Interested in post-fire soil 🦠? My talk and these others are still available on the AGU website - check them out!

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Our Build a VR Tour tutorial is all up to date, including instructions for GoPro MAX and GoPro Fusion cameras. Shout out to Adelyn Arens for updating this resource! The resource page includes a link to all of our current VR tours and can be found here: bit.ly/3Mbga4X

Thank you to National Academies for inviting the Byrd Center to share virtualice.byrd.osu.edu with the Technology Developments to Advance Antarctic Research workshop today. #polarscience #antarctica #geovisualization

thank you Kevin!! Super thankful for you to be there, and excited to work towards the fancier hat! and peep @thirstygecko in his fancy robes!

My 1st PhD chapter on the post-fire soil microbiome is out in Nature Microbiology & I'm so, SO proud of it! I joined @wilkinslab as a geologist and needed to learn basic microbiology & bioinformatics with this huge dataset. 3 years later -- here it is: nature.com/articles/s4156… (1/4)

In two weeks, I'm doing a lil' keynote with Queer Geographies Postgraduate Reading Group on trans inclusion/exclusion in geography. Learn about the obstacles to queer&trans belonging in geog. Can we please do better, geography?📢 Callin' all aspiring allies: 🔄RT🔄 & register now: bit.ly/3PPlY5A 📢

How do scientists consider power, knowledge and cultural rules, and geopolitics when conducting field research in the Andes Mountains? Polar Archives Award recipient Gustavo Valdivia Corrales explored the question this year. Join us for his presentation: byrd.osu.edu/events/polar-a…

This project is bringing remote regions to your home. Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation and created by the Byrd Center, Woodwell Climate Research Center and eCampus at UA Fairbanks, this project hopes to expand public understanding of permafrost. (2/2) Learn more: bit.ly/3UWBv6j

Check out the virtual tour of the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel in Alaska! A collaboration between Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center Ohio State, US Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab, Woodwell Climate Research Center & more. Explore on any device or with a VR headset. bit.ly/3EkxhQy

Permafrost Tunnel Virtual Tour! ❄️👷 🗓️ Thursday 30 March 2023 ⏰ 13:30 ET 💻 Online 🗣️ Tom Douglas (USACE HQ), Patrick Druckenmiller (UA Fairbanks), Anna Lilijedahl (Woodwell Climate Research Center), Robyn Barbato (CRREL, U.S. Army ERDC), and Jason Cervenec (Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center) 🔗 go.osu.edu/permafrost-tun…

Past climate, lipids, and... espresso? ☕ Straight from the bridge deck of the JOIDES Resolution, Expedition 401 organic geochemist and @USCdornsife professor Sarah Feakins explains how all three are connected in the latest Science in 60 Seconds! ⏱️ #NSFFunded #IODP #EXP401