Improving Weather and Climate Understanding for Ohio’s Environmental Professionals and Volunteers

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This online course seeks to empower environmental professionals and volunteers to understand Ohio’s weather and climate and create ways to teach and share information with confidence, additional resources, and support. The online course grew out of the desire to address barriers to accessing this content and was offered online for the first time in spring 2025.  This course will help you integrate weather, climate, and climate change into your work through a final project planning assignment. The course is self-paced and fully online with 3 optional lunch time Zooms to help you build connections and network. The course runs February 17 to March 14, 2026. Registration opens Wednesday January 21, 2026.

What You’ll Learn

  • Define weather and climate and explain how each affects society and the natural world.
  • Examine Ohio’s geographic location and how it influences local weather and climate.
  • Demonstrate connections between geography, weather systems, and global climate zones.
  • Identify natural and human-made drivers of climate change.
  • Describe the primary impacts of climate change in Ohio on phenology, natural resources, and society.
  • Incorporate weather and climate awareness into professional and volunteer education and outreach.

Accessibility

If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Anne Baird at baird.41@osu.edu or 614-292-8603. Requests made by 10 days in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.