OSU Geography

The Department of Geography and Geography Graduate Organization are excited to announce the 2026 spring speaker lineup! These speakers are part of our ongoing series bringing leading researchers to present at OSU. Mark your calendars and follow us to see details for each event.

Department friend and NBC4 meteorologist, Ben Gelber, has a new book, titled Pennsylvania Weather: a 400-Year Chronicle of Historic Events. Congratulations, Ben!

youtube.com/watch?v=BqAkyL… Check out our geographers!

In the latest episode of the WUWM podcast Midwest Moxie, Steven Quiring discusses how extreme wind events impact electric utilities. Check it out at wuwm.com/podcast/midwes…

OSU at ELDAAG 2025! geography.osu.edu/news/osu-eldaag

Please join us for our FINAL talk in our Speaker Series with Dr. Holly Moulton! 🗓️ Date: November 14, 2025 🕞 Time: 3:30-5:00pm 📍 Location: Senate Chamber, 2nd floor, Ohio Union We look forward to seeing you there!

Are you interested in the graduate programs the geography department has to offer? 📅Mark your calendars for Oct. 27th, 2025, 11:00AM-1:00PM EST to register for our virtual open house! Scan the QR code or visit this website for registration:osu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Harvey Miller is moderating a panel discussion at the Columbus Metropolitan Club on September 10. From Survey to Shovel: Let's Get Real About Regional Priorities, will discuss innovative approaches to challenges facing Columbus from key civic leaders. rb.gy/oqmy0b

Join us for the first Speaker Series of the Fall semester in the Department of Geography—kicking off a season with Dr. Kelly Kay! 🗓️ Date: September 26, 2025 🕞 Time: 3:30-5:00pm 📍 Location: Senate Chamber, 2nd floor, Ohio Union We look forward to seeing you there!

We hope that the first week on campus for our graduate students was filled with excitement! We started the day off with a breakfast, a small department tour led by our graduate student organization GGO. We're excited for a upcoming academic year and success! #gobucks

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…

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!

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

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

Busy and exciting time for Prof Zhengyu Liu: he has won a $650,000 @NSF 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…

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

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

Congrats Armita!

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

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-…