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Department of Geography
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The Department of Geography has the reputation and resources that makes it a top-tier program year after year. Consider the following:

  • OSU's Geography is ranked as one of the top 5 programs in the United States, building on two decades of consistently high national rankings.
  • Five of the 50 most cited human geographers in the world are affiliated with Ohio State, including four current and emeritus faculty members.
  • We are home to the internationally renowned Byrd Polar Research Center, which is known for its work to reconstruct climate history and is a leader in polar and alpine research.
  • In 2006, the department was selected for The OSU President's Salute to Undergraduate Academic Achievement in recognition of its exemplary work in undergraduate research, undergraduate education, and honors programming.
  • The Department offers a rich tradition of hands-on field research including undergraduate experience in the Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

The Department of Geography has unparalleled, experienced faculty on staff whose professional contributions to the field of Geography and commitment to teaching have been widely honored and recognized:

  • Three University Distinguished Scholars.
  • Two Distinguished University Professors.
  • Three current or former editors of major disciplinary journals.
  • Highest honors from the Association of American Geographers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, U.S. Geological Survey, Guggenheim Fellowships, and Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.
  • Recognition as mentors for the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.
  • As a result of teaching and research accolades, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fund department researchers and key projects.

And for our undergraduates who decide they want to pursue graduate school, they quickly learn their credentials from Ohio State are critical to getting them accepted into the very best Geography graduate programs in the country, including those at the University of Colorado, University of Washington, UCLA and, of course, The Ohio State University.

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SBS SCIENTISTS AMONG CONTRIBUTORS TO CLIMATE CHANGE PANEL AWARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for their sustained efforts to "build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to assess the best scientific, technical and socio-economic information on climate change from around the world. The IPCC is an intergovernmental body consisting of a network of the world's leading climate change scientists and experts.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC, jointly with former Vice-President Gore, is a tribute to the dedication and commitment of the thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC for several decades. Several Ohio State climate change scientists contributed to the Panel's recent report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Four of these scientists are in Social and Behavioral Science's Department of Geography. We wish to acknowledge their expertise, hard work, and enormous commitment to excellence in their fields:

Jason E. Box, assistant professor, department of geography (atmospheric sciences program) and research scientist, Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC)

David H. Bromwich, professor, department of geography (atmospheric sciences program) and senior research scientist, BPRC

Ryan Fogt, Ph.D. graduate, department of geography (atmospheric sciences program) and research assistant, BPRC.

Ellen Mosley-Thompson, professor, department of geography (atmospheric sciences program) and senior research scientist, BPRC

Two other colleagues at Ohio State contributing to the IPCC report are C.K. Shum and Lonnie Thompson, both professors in the School of Earth Sciences and senior research scientists at BPRC.

Read the IPCC Chairman's tribute to contributing scientists: Click here.

Read portions of the IPCC report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis: Click here.

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