Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center - The Ohio State University

As Earth warms, microbes are evolving and spreading faster, turning oceans, rivers, and ice into breeding grounds for diseases.

The Byrd Center's Lonnie Thompson, Virginia Rich, Matthew Sullivan & Brady O'Connor are quoted in The New Yorker : https://bit.ly/4ukUqcV

Celebrate Byrd's 65th Anniversary at our Banquet! Tickets are $80 per person and include: appetizers, musical performance, keynote by Paul Bierman, dinner, dessert, and silent auction.
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Join the Byrd Center in celebrating its 65th anniversary by taking part in the silent auction at the banquet. Auction proceeds will benefit ongoing Byrd Center initiatives, including undergraduate scholarships.
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It's time to integrate groundwater into coastal risk plans! Rising sea levels don't just flood coasts, they introduce groundwater with salts, damaging pipes & foundations. 🌊🏗️
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4uFMkfv

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and CFAES at Ohio State hosted a presentation called An Update on Ticks at South Ctrs. Tim McDermott, a DVM with OSU Ext Franklin County, discusses common tick myths and how to stay safe outdoors this summer. Watch here: https://bit.ly/4tjRE6Y

The Byrd Center 65th Anniversary Banquet registration form is now open! Join us on June 11 from 5:30-9:00 pm. Register here: https://bit.ly/4tXh5MK

Big congrats to Haylen Scott 🎉, Byrd Center Design Intern. Haylen majored in Fashion and Retail Studies, minored in Design Thinking, and will be pursuing a Master’s in Consumer Sciences with a focus in Fashion and Retail Studies at OSU following graduation.

A reception will be held TODAY at 4 PM for Polar Expressions: Finding Beauty in the Coldest Regions on Earth in the Thompson Library Gallery. Polar curator Laura Kissel will give a guided tour of the exhibition. Several items on display are seldom available for public viewing.

Congrats to Austin Weber who is graduating this spring from the School of Earth Sciences with his PhD on the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) to identify mineral particles in ice cores from Earth's highest tropical mountain! 🎉