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Coral Reef Researcher Wins Explorer’s Club Honor

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Mark Hay with Glaciers
Mercury ID
468501
Nov 11, 2015

Georgia Tech Teasley Professor Mark Hay has received the Lowell Thomas Award from the New York-based Explorers Club.

“First Arrival” Hypothesis in Darwin’s Finches Gets Some Caveats

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Colonies of competing bacteria
Mercury ID
590944
Apr 26, 2017

Researchers have extended the hypothesis for how early arriving species gain an ecosystem advantage through adaptive radiation.

Rising Temperatures Threaten Stability of Tibetan Alpine Grasslands

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Test plots to study climate change effects on the Tibetan Plateau
Mercury ID
591620
May 10, 2017

A warming climate could affect the stability of alpine grasslands in Asia's Tibetan Plateau.

Four Communities Selected for Inaugural Georgia Smart Communities Challenge

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Georgia Smart Communities Challenge Winners Map
Mercury ID
606867
Jun 12, 2018

Albany, Chamblee, Chatham County and Gwinnett County will implement smart development through a Georgia Tech-led program.

Lifting Communities with Smart Technology

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Georgia Smart Communities Challenge Winners Map
Mercury ID
606867
Jun 12, 2018

Georgia Smart Communities Challenge helps small and large cities improve quality of life.

Rising Tundra Temperatures Create Worrying Changes in Microbial Communities

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Tundra test plot
Mercury ID
623061
Jul 08, 2019

Rising temperatures could affect the microbial communities in northern latitude tundra.

Peatlands’ ‘Huge Reservoir’ of Carbon at Risk of Release

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Yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota (provided).
Mercury ID
678444
Oct 23, 2025

Researchers analyzed data from 10, yurt-like test chambers in a natural boreal spruce bog in northern Minnesota.

Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone

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Coal-fired power plant by day
Mercury ID
628279
Oct 29, 2019

This is what could happen if all endangered regulations that help in the fight against harmful ozone go away.

Georgia Tech Included in Major Water Desalination Research Initiative

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Water desalination
Mercury ID
627790
Oct 18, 2019

Georgia Tech is part of a new effort to address water security issues in the United States.

El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age, Hard Evidence Says

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El Nino globe images 1997 and 2015
Mercury ID
629307
Nov 25, 2019

Hard evidence now says: El Nino and the climate phenomenon that drives it have become more extreme in the industrial age.

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