Prof. Kendra McSweeney has been elected in to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Kendra’s election to the AAAS is in recognition of the significant impact she is having with her scholarship within—and beyond—the academy. Congrats Kendra! geography.osu.edu/news/congratul…

Guess who just won American Association of Geographers Geography Bowl? It's our graduate student John Layman who represents the Ohio State and the Eastern Lakes Division of AAG! Congrats John! geography.osu.edu/news/2023-aag-…

Join FSU Geography as they welcome Ohio State & OSU Geography's Kendra McSweeney, Ph.D., for its Annual Shaw Lecture this Friday (4/28) at 4pm in Bellamy 102!

Did you know you can watch our previous speaker presentations on YouTube? Watch and subscribe at the following link: bit.ly/3Udvm6U

Manual wheelchair users access only 1% of accessible area compared to nondisabled people. Despite huge disparities in accessibiltiy, people with mobility disabilities still contributed 260k trips in 2019 alone in Columbus. #DisabilityTwitter #mobilityinjuctice Thread 1/n

.OSU Geography Alvaro Montenegro lead a study that estimated how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures traveling from Southeast Asia. Higher body weight helped voyagers survive the ocean journey. news.osu.edu/how-larger-bod…

.OSU Geography Professor Mathew Coleman has been appointed chair of the department for a four-year term. Congrats to Professor Coleman!!! Read more: bit.ly/3rA3HmD

Q&A faculty spotlight: OSU Geography Professor Becky Mansfield studies nature-society geography, political ecology and science studies. "Most broadly, my research seeks to explain socio-ecological problems and identify pathways to environmental and social justice."

.OSU Geography Steven Quiring and Brent McRoberts, and OSU Astronomy alum Scott Hull (BS '17, MS '19), founded StormImpact, a startup that has the capability to decrease the consequences and occurrence of power outages caused by extreme weather conditions. oied.osu.edu/ohio-state-uni…

Do you know that as a student, you could register for the upcoming Ohio GIS Conference 2023 for free on Tuesday? Check it out! geography.osu.edu/news/ohio-gis-…

Professor Zhengyu Liu was in the news discussing a possible major tipping point in the Earth’s climate system. heatmap.news/climate/atlant…

Dr. Jana Houser wins phenomenal $1,750,000 Good-to-Great Grant to purchase and maintain a mobile weather radar system. This will re-center meteorology and atmospheric sciences research on Ohio State, and on our department, within and beyond the Big Ten 🎉 geography.osu.edu/news/dr.-jana-…

Another big grant for our faculty! Profs. Zhengyu Liu (PI), Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson (Co-PIs) won a $900k U.S. National Science Foundation grant to investigate paleoclimate records of stable water isotopes in high-eevation, lower-latitude glaciers. geography.osu.edu/news/congratul…

Congrats Armita!

Congrats to our newly minted PhDs: Anisa Kline Yue Lin (@linyuehzzz) Tianqi Zhang Armita Kar (Armita Kar) Katie Krupala 🎉🎉🎖️ We can't wait to see all the wonderful things you'll do!

Busy and exciting time for Prof Zhengyu Liu: he has won a $650,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant as a PI for a project titled ‘Assessing and Understanding Oceanic Climate Forcing on Decadal Climate Variability from Surface Heat Flux’. Congrats Liu! geography.osu.edu/news/congratul…

We're thrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members joining our department this academic year: Drs. Theresa Hice-Fromille (@theresa_hice), Sandy Wong (Sandy Wong @swongraphy.bsky.social), and Man-Yau "Joseph" Chan! geography.osu.edu/news/please-we…

Ohio State Geography hiring in Transportation Geography! Assistant professor, tenure track! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25367

Professor Harvey Miller, director of CURA, has won the International Society for Urban Informatics’ Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his pioneering research in analytical time geography. For more information, see isocui.org/#/awards/icui2…, Harvey!

Check out these storymaps from students in the SU2025 version of GEOG 2400.02 Students trace the movement of key goods—such as coffee, electronics, or clothing—from production to consumption. The full collection of student StoryMaps can be viewed here: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/10…