Dorien Minor

Celebrating Black History Month with Dorien Minor

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School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' Dorien Minor shares perspective, career plans, and the importance of representation in STEM.
Alexander Robel holds ice used in glacial melt research. , Alexander Robel (All Photos, Video: Alexander Robel and Earle Wilson) , Alexander Robel sets up an experiment to study glacial melt. , Alexander Robel with an ice experiment in his lab. , Water with dye is used to illustrate seawater seep under glaciers. , Dye-injected water illustrates warm saltwater seepage under glacial grounding lines.

Seawater Seep May Be Speeding Glacier Melt, Sea Level Rise

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Alexander Robel leads a new study projecting that warm seawater — seeping under certain glaciers — could eventually lead to future sea level rise that’s double that of existing estimates, with new findings published in The Cryosphere.
Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences (Photo: Tamara Lackey) , NASA visualization of North Atlantic Ocean currents. (Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) , Researchers with OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic) prepare to launch marine sensors. (Photo: Heather Furey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Susan Lozier Receives Top American Meteorological Society Honor

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Dean Lozier is honored as recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s top award in oceanography: the 2022 Henry Stommel Research Medal.
An Atlanta K-5 student joins a Georgia Tech LEO volunteer to learn about the science behind making slime (Photo: 2020) , Little Einstein Organization volunteers Paige Holland (left) and Grace May prepare at-home science kits for Atlanta K-5 students. (Photo: Olivia Gravina) , From L to R: Little Einstein Organization volunteers Madison Cochran, Eduardo Ramirez Velez, Sydney Bules, and Anna Cobb put together homemade Silly Putty kits. (Photo: Olivia Gravina) , At-home science kits prepared by Little Einstein Organization volunteers at Georgia Tech. (Photo: Olivia Gravina) , Pamela Pollet , Olivia Gravina

Little Einsteins Organization Brings Science and Engineering to the Kids

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Through the Little Einsteins Organization, Georgia Tech students are creating at-home science kits, collaborating with K-5 schools and local libraries, and using Zoom to keep Atlanta's youngest scientists and engineers engaged in STEM.
The AAAS Fellowship Rosette (Photo: AAAS) , Kim Cobb , Hanjoong Jo , Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo

Cobb, Jo, Sa de Melo Honored as Lifetime AAAS Fellows

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Kim M. Cobb, Hanjoong Jo, and Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo are among AAAS scientists, engineers, and innovators being recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.
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Major Philanthropic Grant Will Create New Center to Advance Open-Source Software

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Using a new philanthropic grant, Georgia Tech will hire software engineers to write scalable, reliable, and portable open-source software for scientific research.
Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstädt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA)/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS , Circular currents, or vortices, in Jupiter's atmosphere taken by the Juno spacecraft. (Photo NASA) , The Juno spacecraft arrived in the Jovian system in 2016. (Illustration NASA) , Eddies, circular currents of water, seen in Earth's Southern Ocean near Antarctica. (Photo NASA) , Annalisa Bracco

Dipping a Toe in Jupiter’s Atmospheric ‘Oceans’ and Polar Cyclones

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New NASA satellite images of polar cyclones on Jupiter are helping Annalisa Bracco and a network of fellow scientists understand the forces and fluid dynamics that drive these unique weather patterns.
James Stringfellow

College of Sciences Hires First Career Educator

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James Stringfellow, an employment specialist with experience helping Atlanta’s veterans and entertainment industry, will now assist College of Sciences students and instructors with career mapping, planning, and workforce issues.
Africa is home to a diverse range of vertebrate ecosystems, including the most complete natural community of remaining terrestrial megafauna. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , Zebra gallop across grassland in eastern Africa. Ankle gear ratios of mammals that live in open savannas vary to those in more enclosed habitats, since animals in open areas typically need to run faster. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , Assistant Professor Jenny McGuire, 2020 NSF CAREER Award Winner , Zebra skull at a wildlife education center in eastern Africa. In places or times with less precipitation, mammal communities overall will have more robust, rugged, resistant teeth. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , A yellow baboon family joins a warthog to root for snacks in the soil. Along nutrient-poor savannas, fertile patches are attractive to hungry mammals. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , South Luangwa Valley giraffe, puku antelope, and Crawshay's zebra graze in Mfuwe, Zambia. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , Jenny McGuire rappels into Natural Trap Cave in northern Wyoming. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston) , This past summer, Jenny McGuire (right) and her Spatial Ecology & Paleontology Lab joined functional paleoecologist Julie Meachen of Des Moines University (second from left) and colleagues in studying Natural Trap Cave fossils. (Photo: Jess Hunt-Ralston)

Focus on Fossils: Paleobiologists to Unearth Ancient Megafauna in East Africa, Forecast How Humans and Climate Affect Wildlife

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Jenny McGuire will study Africa's fossil record to inform conservation biology decisions and forecast how humans and climate affect wildlife — building a better understanding between animals, physical traits over time, response to environmental changes.
A staff member assembles kits for campus Covid-19 surveillance testing

Taking Precautions as Covid-19 Cases Rise

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As of this week, the omicron variant makes up the majority of new coronavirus cases in the U.S.