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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 […]

TVNewsCheck reported March 28 that Hearst Television-owned NBC affiliate WGAL Lancaster, PA (DMA 43), has added Meteorologist Ethan Huston to its News 8 Storm Team. Huston is an Ohio University alum with a Minor on Meteorology from the Department of Geography. Huston’s regular schedule has him appearing weekends on WGAL’s 6, 10 […]

Dispatch from Romania By Tim Anderson Associate Professor of Geography In his widely acclaimed history of Romania from prehistoric times to the present, Romania: Borderland of Europe, the noted Romanian scholar Lucian Boia argues that the “soul” of the country, its national identity, is deeply rooted in tropes associated with […]

For some perspective on this week’s cold weather, Athens Messenger reporter Sara Brumfield went to Kyle Clem, Associate Director of the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis and a graduate student in Geography-Meteorology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. Clem said this week’s cold snap won’t be as bad as […]

“This is the coldest we’ve seen it in two decades,” Dr. Ryan Fogt, Assistant Professor of Meteorology at Ohio University and Director of the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis, told Athens Messenger reporter Susan Tebben in a Jan. 6 article. Windchill is the biggest factor in preparing for going out […]

Ohio University faculty made an impact with 23 presentations at the Geological Society of America’s 125th Anniversary Annual Meeting & Exposition Oct. 27–30 in Denver. Dr. Dorothy Sack, Professor of Geography and Graduate Chair, College of Arts & Sciences, presented on “GILBERT’S (1890) LAKE BONNEVILLE MONOGRAPH, A CLASSIC THEN AND […]

An Ohio University alum is one of five professionals who chose an international career to share their knowledge with the at SUNY Cortland campus in a panel presentation on Nov. 6, according to a news release. Michael Goldman ’10 earned a B.S. in Environmental Geography from the College of Arts […]