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Historical Society Curator Writes about Anthropologist’s Work at Patton Bog

Bradley T. Lepper, curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, wrote about research by two Ohio University anthropologists on June 15 in an op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch titled “Ancient cultures affected by climate change, too.” Climate change must have presented challenges as well as opportunities for ancient cultures […]

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June 17, 2014 at 8:16 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Climate Change in Athens County—Been There

Climate Change in Athens County—Been There

Picture Athens County today. Dense forests and rolling hills. But it hasn’t always looked like this. Climate change and human activity have combined, research suggests, to alter the hills of Southeastern Ohio many times over the past 3,000 years. Prairie grassland? Ragweed gardens? Park-like woods without dense undergrowth? Clear-cut forests? […]

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June 17, 2014 at 2:45 pmResearch

Life at Patton Bog—3,000 Years and Counting

Life at Patton Bog—3,000 Years and Counting

  Patton Bog, as it is known locally, is a small natural wetland in Athens County. Today it is surrounded by dense forest in a relatively unpopulated area, but it hasn’t always been so. It was once home to villages of Native Americans who used its clay to make their […]

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June 17, 2014 at 1:42 pmResearch

Biology Student Examines How Climate Change Impacts Appalachia Amphibians

Biology Student Examines How Climate Change Impacts Appalachia Amphibians

By Natalia Radic From Perspectives Hiking through the trails of Appalachia, Biological Sciences doctoral student Vincent Farallo focuses his attention on the ground, under the leaf litter, in search of small, colorful lungless salamanders. These amphibians live in “microhabitats” of only 1-10 meters squared. Because they breathe through their skin, […]

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June 12, 2014 at 2:42 pmResearch

Dabelko Comments on Report on Climate Change, National Security

Dabelko Comments on Report on Climate Change, National Security

Dr. Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Professor and Director of Environmental Studies at the Ohio University George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, talks with the  Wilson Center about a new report from military leaders about the instability brought about by climate change. Military leaders should be very concerned about […]

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June 9, 2014 at 4:48 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Scanlan Presents on ‘Impacts of Female Empowerment on Environmental Health and Sustainability’

Scanlan Presents on ‘Impacts of Female Empowerment on Environmental Health and Sustainability’

Dr. Stephen Scanlan, Associate Professor of Sociology, presented a paper in May at the Canadian Sociological Association 2014 Congress on “Women, the Environment and Development: The Impacts of Female Empowerment on Environmental Health and Sustainability.” Abstract: In this paper I examine the connection between female empowerment, sustainable development, and environmental […]

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May 29, 2014 at 9:29 amResearch

Dyer Study Shows Lasting Effects of Drought in Rainy Eastern U.S.

Dyer Study Shows Lasting Effects of Drought in Rainy Eastern U.S.

This spring, more than 40 percent of the western United States is in a drought that the USDA deems “severe” or “exceptional.” The same was true in 2013. In 2012, drought even spread to the humid east. It’s easy to assume that a three-year drought is an inconsequential blip on […]

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April 17, 2014 at 12:47 pmResearch