New International Center Will Support Collaborative Solutions to Improve Health of World’s Oceans

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Ocean Visions – UN Decade Collaborative Center for Ocean-Climate Solutions (OV – UN DCC) will be headquartered at Georgia Aquarium
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Georgia Sea Level Research and Resilience Efforts Expand

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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science has officially started
A research enclosure at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's SPRUCE facility in northern Minnesota. (Photo Joel Kostka) , Joel Kostka takes soil samples at the SPRUCE facility in Minnesota. , A soil core sample from the SPRUCE facility. (Photo Joel Kostka) , The entrance to Marcell Experimental Forest, part of the SPRUCE facility shared by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Forest Service. (Photo Joel Kostka) , Plants in the SPRUCE experimental area are dominated by peat mosses of the genus Sphagnum, which is an ecosystem engineer that produces much of the degrading biomass or “peat” in soils of northern peatlands. (Photo Joel Kostka) , Ph.D. student Tianze Song from the School of Biological Sciences prepares soil samples for metagenomics investigations during the annual soil core collection of the SPRUCE experiment. (Photo Joel Kostka) , The Kostka Lab research group.

Joel Kostka Awarded $3.2 Million to Keep Digging into How Soils and Plants Capture Carbon — And Keep It Out of Earth’s Atmosphere

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School of Biological Sciences Professor Joel Kostka’s decade of research in Minnesota peatlands has received a boost from a new Department of Energy grant, set to explore how science can address climate change with emphasis on carbon storage.
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Georgia Tech Researchers Study Methods for Assessing Classroom Air Quality during COVID-19 Pandemic

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Georgia Tech researchers have identified that in-situ measurements of either carbon dioxide (CO2) or particulate matter (PM) by low-cost sensors can be used to perform such calculations in classrooms.
The inaugural cohort for the Interdisciplinary Health and Environment Leadership Development (IHE-LeaD) Program at Georgia Tech. Info on the cohort's fellows is found at the IHE-LeaD website. , Members of the inaugural cohort of fellows for the Interdisciplinary Health and Environment Leadership Development (IHE-LeaD) Program discuss program goals. , Gabi Steinbach , Nidhi Desai , Sonja Brankovic , Stephanie Bilodeau

IHE-LeaD: New Fellowship Aims to Accelerate Translation of Scientific Discoveries in Health, Environment into Community-Facing Solutions

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The Interdisciplinary Health and Environment Leadership Development (IHE-LeaD) Program announces its first cohort of graduate student fellows from the College of Sciences, the College of Engineering, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
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College of Sciences Celebrates Six New Haley Fellows

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Graduate students from each of the six College of Sciences schools have received 2022-2023 Herbert P. Haley Fellowships to expand their research — and connect with fellow scientists and mathematicians at conferences and events.

Fall 2022 GT Astrobiology Distinguished Lecture and Social Event!

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Lecture Title: Contending with the Truly Alien: Agnostic Approaches to Life Detection
From left: Dobromir Rahnev, Yuanzhi Tang, Martin Mourigal.

Three Faculty Named Blanchard Early Career Professors

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The College of Sciences has named three new Blanchard Early Career Professors: Martin Mourigal, School of Physics; Dobromir “Doby” Rahnev, School of Psychology; and Yuanzhi Tang, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Undergraduate Student Research Round-up: Summer Across the College of Sciences

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NSF REUs, a new community college initiative, conferences and workshops offer ample opportunities for students — current, prospective, and visiting — to hone their research skills in the College of Sciences.
The NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V aircraft outside its hangar in Broomfield, Colorado. The research aircraft is being deployed to Korea as part of the ACCLIP campaign. (Photo: NASA/NCAR) , Greg Huey

Research Aircraft to Investigate Monsoon-climate Connections

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A team of international scientists will study how the Asian summer monsoon — one of the largest and most important meteorological patterns in the world — affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate.