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Mar 29, 2021
Faculty member Kerry Ard has devoted an extensive amount of research to environmental justice and inequality, the structural causes and ultimate consequences.
Read "Unequal Exposure and Access: The Crisis of Environmental Injustice," a story focused on Dr. Ard's area of research expertise compiled by the Sustainability Institute and shared at a recent Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Green Team event. Find out what environmental justice and environmental inequality are, how they differ, and what has changed since the first federal directive to address these issues.
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Nov 18, 2020
City living appears to improve reproductive success for migratory tree swallows compared to breeding in more environmentally protected areas, a new five-year study suggests. But urban life comes with a big trade-off – health hazards linked to poorer water quality. “With urbanization expanding worldwide, we are transforming the landscape. And this isn’t going away,” said lead author Mažeika Sullivan of the new study featured in Ohio State News . Sullivan is the director of the Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park at Ohio State. “My lab is looking at how urbanization affects multiple responses of ecosystems – what those changes are and quantifying them, but also seeing what this tells us about how we can manage and conserve ecosystems and wildlife in this context.
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Oct 27, 2020
Raising children on a farm might sound idyllic, but in a national study, most farmers with children under 18 said childcare was a challenge. Over two-thirds of first-generation farmers, people who had not grown up on farms, reported struggles with childcare, from finding affordable options nearby to finding providers whose childrearing philosophy matched theirs. Even multigenerational farmers, many who live near relatives, said childcare’s affordability, availability, or quality was a problem. Just over half of those farmers reported some type of childcare challenge. “This is going to come as a surprise to a lot of people who don’t think childcare is an issue for farmers,” said Shoshanah Inwood, an assistant professor at The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) and the lead researcher of the study.
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Sep 30, 2020
School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Matt Hamilton was interviewed for Ohio State Insights on his research focusing on wildfires and land management — specifically, how people make decisions and what factors are important.
Read the full interview (a 5-minute read) and learn about some of the broader societal and ecological systems issues playing out in the more than 90 fires raging in the West and what they may mean for the future.
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Mar 30, 2020
The aquaculture lab in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University attended and presented their recent research on topics of cichlid, cyprinid, salmonid and percid fish species hybridization, hormonal sex reversal, polyploidy induction, and nutrition at this year's Aquaculture America conference in Honolulu, HI.
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Mar 27, 2020
The Ohio Division of Wildlife's award winning proposal to develop Ohio public access for wildlife was informed by an assessment conducted by faculty and staff with the Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Mar 10, 2020
Left untilled, fields gain organic matter and maintain high yields, but there’s a tradeoff to consider when deciding not to till. Fields that aren’t tilled are less likely to erode, sending soil and the components of fertilizer, including phosphorus, downstream, a threat to water quality.
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Mar 2, 2020
A National Association of Counties (NACo) article, “Substance abuse, voting machines top funding woes” describes some of the findings of research conducted by Linda Lobao, a professor of rural sociology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University.
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Feb 11, 2020
Faculty member Robyn Wilson describes the findings of a new research review in the Feb. 10 Ohio State News release, "Adapting to climate change: We’re doing it wrong." The research review is published in the journal Nature Climate and is co-authored by colleagues in the School of Environment and Natural Resources.
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Dec 19, 2019
Faculty member Nicole Sintov’s research published in Nature Energy is featured in the Ohio State News release, “Heat or eat? How one energy conservation strategy may hurt vulnerable populations.” Lee White, a former postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State, who is now with Australian National University is the lead author on the published research. According to the published article, the study examined 7,487 households taking part in a randomized control time-of-use pilot in the southwestern United States and found two vulnerable populations, people with disabilities who may be using life-saving equipment and elderly people more sensitive to temperature changes, saw the largest increases in their bills on the time-of-use rates. Read more about the study, the findings and implications for the adoption of time-of-use electricity rates on a large-scale.
