Making Headlines
The following articles reflect our commitment to share sustainability-related accomplishments across the university — representing its colleges, departments, institutes, centers and other units — in the areas of research, student engagement, campus stewardship and collaborations with the public and private sectors.
University Business, 5-Jul-18
After delivering an impassioned speech to the University of Michigan's Board of Regents asking for more serious follow-through on reducing the campus' greenhouse gas emissions, Adam Simon caught the room's attention when asked by a board member which peer institutions were leading the way toward carbon neutrality. "It's the university that's beaten us in football 13 out of the last 14 years - Ohio State," Simon said in May, citing the university's status as the Big Ten's largest green power user, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. "Ohio State is recognized globally as the leader in implementing sustainability on their campus." ...
Tech Republic, 3-Jul-18
The process of turning a city into a smart transportation hub is a process. Find out how Columbus is making it happen. …The Vulcan grant is a three-year grant and the city is in the midst of the second year of it. In the past year, the city has purchased 93 electric vehicles, with a plan to purchase 100 more over the next two years, Braun said. … Some of the challenges of getting the tech in place for the Vulcan grant has been due to it being a collaborative effort while working with partners such as Ohio State University and the Columbus Partnership. ...
Star Beacon (Ashtabula), 2-Jul-18
An Ohio Senate bill now headed to the governor’s desk appropriates $36 million toward water quality efforts in Lake Erie’s western basin. … The bill appropriates the following toward water quality research and assistance along Lake Erie’s western basin: $2.65 million to monitor phosphorous loading, harmful algal growth and toxicity levels at The Ohio State University’s Sea Grant and Stone Lab. ...
Lima News, 28-Jun-18
...Research into autonomous vehicles is already unleashing a change in education and igniting concerns among owners of small repair shops. What makes a self-driving car work is less about the mechanics and more about the controls. “It’s about the software and hardware within the vehicle and how they interact with the sensors; whether it’s Lidar sensors, radar sensors; those types of visual systems, and how those feedback into the computer systems of the vehicle. ” said Maryn Weimer, senior associate director of Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research in Columbus. ...
Featured expert(s): Maryn Weimer, senior associate director, Center for Automotive Research
Popular Mechanics, 25-Jun-18
The bedrock below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is rising more rapidly than expected, according to an international team of researchers. The unexpected discovery has several implications for the future of the Antarctic continent... ...“The rate of uplift we found is unusual and very surprising. It’s a game changer,” says Terry Wilson, another lead author of the new study. ...
Featured expert(s): Terry Wilson, professor emeritus of earth sciences
The New York Times, 21-Jun-18
Antarctica's bedrock is rising surprisingly fast as a vast mass of ice melts into the oceans, a trend that might slow an ascent in sea levels caused by global warming, scientists said on Thursday. ALSO: The Columbus Dispatch: Antarctica research offers good news in battle against rising seas ALSO: Science Magazine: Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse ALSO: Axios: Rising ground under West Antarctica could prevent ice sheet collapse ALSO: Cosmos:Rare good news: bedrock rise may slow ice melt ...
Featured expert(s): Terry Wilson, professor of earth sciences
The Columbus Dispatch, 21-Jun-18
...In the absence of a new farm bill or extending the current law, agriculture policy would revert to 1938 and 1949 farm bill laws, ending many current farm programs and setting crop and dairy subsidy levels higher than current levels and far above market prices. Carl Zulauf, an Ohio State University agriculture economist who has tracked farm bills since 1981, said it’s likely there will be an extension of some kind before there is a new bill. ...
Featured expert(s): Carl Zulauf, professor of agricultural, environmental and development economics
Wooster Daily Record, 20-Jun-18
ATI’s greenhouse manager needn’t concern himself with the old cliche, “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.” It doesn’t even take that long for Nathan Donley to change the climatic conditions in the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute greenhouse complex; rather, just one touch of the computerized control system adjusts the “weather.” ...
The Columbus Dispatch, 19-Jun-18
...Ranges of birds, plants and insects have changed in response to new temperature and rainfall patterns, and that could bring new combinations of predators and prey into contact, said Chris Tonra, an assistant professor of avian wildlife ecology at OSU. “A given prey species might not have an adaptation to a certain predator,” he said. ...
Featured expert(s): Chris Tonra, an assistant professor of avian wildlife ecology
Toledo Blade, 19-Jun-18
…House Bill 643 would provide: $2.65 million to the Ohio State Sea Grant and Stone Lab to research and monitor phosphorous loading, harmful algal growth, and toxicity levels. ...