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Dynamics of The Tropical Atmosphere and Oceans: Peter Webster Tackles Wind, Weather, Warming Waters in New Textbook

College of Sciences Professor Emeritus Peter Webster examines the tropical atmosphere and ocean relationship — and impacts on climate change — in new university textbook


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Honoring the Class of 2020

Join Georgia Tech for a virtual graduation celebration on Friday, May 1!


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A Sunny Forecast for Georgia Tech’s Future Weather Watchers: WXChallenge Winners

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences students take home individual, team honors in weather forecasting competition


Drawdown Georgia team
Georgia Tech Leads Team Effort to Reduce Georgia’s Carbon Footprint

Drawdown Georgia is an effort to help identify solutions to help reduce Georgia’s carbon footprint in economically justifiable ways.


School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Asst. Professor Chris Reinhard
Sigma Xi Recognizes Reinhard with Sigma Xi 2020 Young Faculty Award; Three Sciences Students with Research Honors

Science research society also honors students from Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biological Sciences


Jennifer Leavey's Stay at Home Journal Club
Keeping Connected with Science: The Stay at Home Journal Club

How Jennifer Leavey’s videos use research articles to build personal contact and educate online communities about COVID-19 research.


Georgia Tech's campus (Jess Hunt-Ralston).
Academic Excellence On Display: Announcing Our Spring 2020 Student Scholarship Recipients

Five students win honors in a variety of scientific disciplines


Peter Addison, fourth-year undergraduate and May 2020 candidate for graduation from the School of Physics, and Lucy, the family goldendoodle.
Physics Senior Peter Addison on Planetary Plasma, NASA Research, Post-Grad Plans

School of Physics’ Addison will graduate into Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, pursuing Ph.D. and safe landing sites for NASA’s Europa Clipper


A sheen of oil coats the surface of the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010, as ships work to help control the Deepwater Horizon spill. Credit: kris krüg, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0/Eos Magazine
Deepwater Horizon and the Rise of the Omics: A Decade of Breakthroughs in Microbial Science

Eos article led by Joel Kostka spotlights ten years of advances in genomics, analysis of how ecosystems react to oil spills


Nature Astronomy, March 2020
Nature Astronomy: Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Cover Story Is a Guide for Discovering Medium-sized Black Holes

Study on intermediate-mass black holes, multiband gravitational waves takes the spotlight in this month's Nature Astronomy.


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