Spring Sciences Celebration Honorees

Faculty and Staff Honored at 2025 Spring Sciences Celebration

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The College of Sciences recognized outstanding faculty and staff for the 2024-25 academic year as well as recent retirees.
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Celebrating Tenure: Spring 2025

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This semester, 36 faculty members from across the Institute, including four from the College of Sciences, were awarded tenure.
Joel Kostka

Joel Kostka Named Director of Science for Georgia’s Tomorrow

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The new center, announced by the College in December 2024, will drive research aimed at improving life across the state of Georgia.
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Atlanta Science Festival Launches With Celebrate STEAM at Georgia Tech

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Over 5,000 people attended Georgia Tech's Celebrate STEAM event on March 8, which showcased more than 60 demonstrations in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics.
The Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT) site collects real-time data during the Los Angeles wildfires. Courtesy: Haroula Baliaka , Investigators used measurements recorded hourly at the ASCENT monitoring site in Pico Rivera, approximately 14 miles south of the Eaton Canyon fire, to assess atmospheric lead during the Eaton Canyon and Palisades fires. Courtesy: Haroula Baliaka , The ASCENT facility in Pico Rivera is equipped with a range of aerosol measurement instruments, including the Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) for non-refractory aerosols, Xact for detecting trace metals, Aethalometer for assessing black/brown c

LA Fires Trigger Temporary Spike in Airborne Lead Levels

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The fires enabled the first real-time data on airborne lead, thanks to a pioneering air quality measurement network.
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Seven Appointed as BBISS Faculty Fellows

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The BBISS Faculty Fellows program has been in place since 2014. Fellows are drawn from across all seven Georgia Tech Colleges and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).
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Unearthing Climate Solutions

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Georgia Tech researchers explore how to improve the planet, one rock at a time.
Researchers launch a a lightweight, balloon-borne instrument to collect data. "To keep advancing, we need scientists who can determine what data we need, collect that data, and solve problems," Bracco says. (NOAA)

At the Intersection of Climate and AI, Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Climate Science

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A Georgia Tech-led review paper recently published in Nature Reviews Physics is exploring the ways machine learning is revolutionizing the field of climate physics — and the role human scientists might play.
The global ocean’s surface temperature was still well above average going into 2025. Meaghan Skinner Photography/Moment via Getty Images

2024’s Extreme Ocean Heat Breaks Records Again, Leaving 2 Mysteries to Solve

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In fact, every decade since 1984, when satellite recordkeeping of ocean temperatures started, has been warmer than the previous one.

EAS Graduate Student Donglai Yang Selected iHARP Polar Informatics Graduate Fellow

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Donglai Yang, a second-year PhD student in geophysics, was selected as one of two recipients of the 2025 iHARP Polar Informatics graduate fellowship.