Reuters and KFGO, September 13, 2021
Scientists are racing to collect ice cores – along with long-frozen records they hold of climate cycles – as global warming melts glaciers and ice sheets. Some say they are running out of time. And, in some cases, it’s already too late. ...
Featured expert(s): Lonnie Thompson, earth sciences and SI affiliated faculty, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, geography and SI affiliated faculty
September 13, 2021
New York Times, September 10, 2021
Featured expert(s): Bart Elmore
history, SI affiliated faculty
WBNS, September 1, 2021
The Ohio State University is taking several measures to fight COVID-19 on campus, including a new initiative: collecting dust. ...
Featured expert(s): Karen Dannemiller
civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, SI core faculty
AP, August 27, 2021
The Brazilian scientists were skeptical. They ran different models to check calculations, but all returned the same startling result. The country with the most freshwater resources on the planet steadily lost 15% of its surface water since 1991. Gradual retreat in the Brazilian share of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, left water covering just one-quarter the area it did 30 years ago. ...
Featured expert(s): Mažeika Patricio Sulliván
environment and natural resources
NBC4, August 26, 2021
Dust vacuumed up by cleaners at Ohio State University is being analyzed to find out how COVID-19 spreads among campus buildings. ...
Featured expert(s): Karen Dannemiller
civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, SI core faculty
Post Falls Press, August 19, 2021
The combined effect of wolves and drought on human, plant and animal communities on rangeland in Idaho and eastern Oregon will be explored by a team led by researchers at the University of Idaho that includes collaborators at the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University as part of a five-year project. ...
Featured expert(s): Jeremy Bruskotter
environment and natural resources, SI affiliated faculty
Energy News Network, August 18, 2021
The seeds are sown for the electrification of farming vehicles, but as major manufacturers begin to develop electric prototypes, they face major logistical challenges to replacing diesel-burning machines in the field. ...
Featured expert(s): Scott Shearer
food, agricultural and biological engineering
Freethink, August 15, 2021
Ohio State scientists have discovered a trove of ancient viruses in glacier ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau. Dating back nearly 15,000 years, the majority of the viruses are completely new to science — and the technique with which they were isolated from the samples may have implications for not only understanding the past, but also the present and future of environments. ...
Featured expert(s): Zhi-Ping Zhong
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Wired, June 28, 2021
In the end, a smart-city revolution in Columbus may have been overly ambitious from the start. ...
Featured expert(s): Harvey Miller
geography, SI affiliated faculty
Columbus Dispatch, June 15, 2021
Featured expert(s): Zhenhua Chen, city and regional planning, SI core faculty, and Harvey Miller, geography, SI affiliated faculty
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