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Researchers Help Maritime Industry Navigate Toward Sustainability

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<p>Ocean shipping, the backbone of international trade, is significantly more energy efficient than air or land transport. However, cutting down on ocean freight carbon emissions will require a great deal of collaboration and effort.</p>

Mercury ID
674168
Jun 11, 2024

Georgia Tech researchers are developing sustainable ocean shipping solutions to meet global emissions targets through eco-friendly fuels, optimized supply chains, and life-cycle assessments.

Visualization Tool Helps Oceanographers Predict Sediment Sample Hotspots

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Mercury ID
674331
Jul 11, 2024

A new data visualization tool designed by a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student is helping a team of microbial ecologists, geobiologists, and oceanographers gain more insight into how deep-sea microorganisms interact within their environment.

Renewable Energy Policies Provide Benefits Across State Lines

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<p>Marilyn Brown, Regents’ and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy</p>

Mercury ID
674599
Aug 15, 2024

New research suggests U.S. states with clean energy policies provide benefits to their neighbors, including states without their own renewable energy policies.

Aluminum Materials Show Promising Performance for Safer, Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries

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<p>Graduate student researcher Yuhgene Liu holds an aluminum material for solid-state batteries.</p>

Mercury ID
671185
Jul 19, 2023

The team’s new battery system could enable electric vehicles to run longer on a single charge and would be cheaper to manufacture — all while having a positive impact on the environment.

Cutting Emissions Isn’t Enough. We Need to Scrub Carbon Directly from the Air

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Direct Air Capture - Ryan Lively, Chris Jones
Mercury ID
664874
Jan 19, 2023

New Direct Air Capture Center will leverage Georgia Tech’s leadership in a burgeoning field.

From Roots to Resilience: Investigating the Vital Role of Microbes in Coastal Plant Health

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<p> Georgia Tech researchers surveying field sites in the salt marshes of Sapelo Island, Georgia.</p>

Mercury ID
674019
May 15, 2024

Understanding how salt marsh grass stays healthy is of crucial ecological importance, and studying the ways bacteria interact with these plants is key.

Tropical Revelations: Unearthing the Impacts of Hydrological Sensitivity on Global Rainfall

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Jie He
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<p>Jie He, assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, wants to predict how rainfall will change in the presence of continuing climate change. — Photo by Jerry Grillo</p><p> </p>

Mercury ID
673964
May 08, 2024

Georgia Tech researcher investigates how rainfall will change as Earth’s atmosphere heats up.

James Stroud Awarded British Ecological Society Founder's Prize

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James Stroud examines an anole (Day’s Edge Productions)
Mercury ID
673890
Sep 04, 2024

Stroud is being recognized for his groundbreaking research as an integrative evolutionary ecologist.

In Fairbanks, Alaska, Researchers Unravel Frigid Air Pollution

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Ice fog over Fairbanks as seen from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (Debbie Dean)
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<p>Ice fog over Fairbanks as seen from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (Debbie Dean)</p>

Mercury ID
674858
Sep 06, 2024

New research shows that an effort to improve wintertime air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska may not be as effective as intended.

Joel Kostka Named AGU Fellow

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Joel Kostka
Mercury ID
675025
Sep 18, 2024

Professor Joel E. Kostka has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union, joining a slate of 53 international researchers selected as 2024 AGU Fellows for “significant contributions to the Earth and space sciences.”

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