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Angie Rogers receives distinguished staff award in surprise visit from committee

School of Earth Sciences Graduate Program Specialist, Angeletha (Angie) Rogers , receives a 2026 OSU Distinguished Staff Award!

The Distinguished Staff Award annually honors staff…

Alex Michaud

SES Assistant Professor Alex Michaud is a recipient of the 2026 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. This is an annual award given by Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry in…

Dr. Andrea Grottoli, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences

Professor Andréa Grottoli received the inaugural Faculty-to-Faculty Mentorship Award from Ohio State's Office of Academic Affairs for her excellence and leadership in faculty mentoring. Based on…

The School of Earth Sciences' BuckAI Observatory, directed by Dr. Joachim Moortgat, was recently spotlighted in the AGUTV Thought Leadership Series at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting (December 15–19,…

Artist's concept of the SWOT satellite over the Earth.

In a recent paper in the journal Nature, SES Professor Michael Durand and his team uses observations from the new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to provide…

New-Diaz, Melisa summer 2020 grad

SES Assistant Professor Melisa A. Diaz will receive the 2026 F. W. Clarke Award from the Geochemical Society this July. The Clarke Award honors a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or…

Two polar explorers climbing an icy landscape

Originally posted by Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center

A Columbus man who has spent most of his life collecting ice in the tropics will be featured on Comedy Central’s The…

Dr. Melisa Diaz in Antarctica with Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror in the background

The Ohio State University’s School of Earth Sciences is proud to announce that Dr. Melisa Diaz, SES faculty member and polar geochemistry expert, will serve as co-lead of the Cryosphere Domain for…

John Olesik

The February 2026 issue of the journal Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy is dedicated to Dr. John Olesik, senior research scientist in SES and director of the Trace Element Research…