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Professor Kim Cobb's class saves 60,000 pounds of CO2 at Georgia Tech in the Carbon Reduction Challenge and visits Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers. [link] Jessica Moerman and Hussein Sayani (advisor Kim Cobb) receive NSF Graduate Fellowships for their research on paleoclimate reconstructions from speleothems and corals. Julia Diaz (advisor Ellery Ingall) has received the Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) Scholar Award. Julia's researh area is the biogeochemical cycling of nutrient elements such as phosphorous in the ocean. The National Collegiate Weather Challenge (WxChallenge) 1st place overall individual award went to James Belanger. Mark Jelinek won the Faculty/Staff category (overall rank #7). [link] Annalisa Bracco's new paper in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics identifies a simple scaling law relating the variance of fundamental quantities in 2D turbulence as function of the Reynolds number. [link] Seminars April 30, 2010 Field Methods Class Presentations, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech n/a March 12, 2010 Dr. Joanna Jones, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center "Satellites and Atmospheric Chemistry" February 5, 2010 Dr. David P. Gushee, Mercer University "Understanding Conservative Religious Resistance to Climate Science"
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