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  The AEG Foundation Lemke Scholarship provides grants to undergraduate and graduate student members of the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists (AEG) to help cover the costs of attending and presenting at scientific and technical conferences.     Congratulations to my doctoral student, Olajide Oladipo, from the University of Georgia Department of Geology. Olajide has been named the 2025 AEG Foundation Lemke…

  UGA names inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellows  Program will expand innovation and entrepreneurship across campus (Campus News - UGA Today) The University of Georgia has named the inaugural members of the Faculty Innovation Fellows program, a group of faculty leaders chosen to help expand a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across campus. The program, part of the Innovation District initiative, equips Fellows with training…

  Environments: "Molecular and Ionic Signatures in Rainwater: Unveiling Sources of Atmospheric Pollution."   Grace Stamm, a geology minor and the first author of this paper, led the study on molecular and ionic signatures in rainwater, unveiling sources of atmospheric pollution. Grace, her student assistantship, and another undergraduate, Arka Bhattacharjee (co-author), were supported through the NSF award (EAR: 2502654), Impact of…

  Letters In Applied Microbiology: "Integrative genomics and metabolic profiling of Rossellomorea sp. DL-A to understand the possible malathion degradation pathway."   Kiana Pillay, one of our undergraduate researchers from the Geomicrobiology Lab, has published her second paper in Letters in Applied Microbiology. Her new article, “Integrative genomics and metabolic profiling of Rossellomorea sp. DL-A to understand the…

Clay Minerals: "Climatic and tectonic influences as recorded in the mineralogy of a Miocene clay deposit at Şile, Türkiye"   Authors:  Dr. Orhan Yavuz 1 , Dr. Paul A. Schroeder 2, Huseyin Demir3, and Dr. Ö. Isik Ece 1,2 1-Istanbul Technical University, Geological Engineering, Faculty of Mines, Maslak, İstanbul, Türkiye 2-Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. 3-General Directorate of State…

  UGA Faculty Innovation Fellows The University of Georgia Innovation Fellows Program, a university-wide initiative to provide the UGA community with improved, peer-delivered access to information, training, and assistance related to innovation and entrepreneurship, announced its first cohort of Faculty Innovation Fellows. The program recruited faculty members from select colleges to serve as peer liaisons and ambassadors between…

An International Project Examining Turkey's Rocks for Future Planetary Missions   Dr. Nurgül Balcı Istanbul Technical University - Faculty of Mines Department of Geological Engineering UGA Department of Geology Adjunct Faculty   As part of this international project, launched by Prof. Dr. Nurgül Balcı, founder and director of the ITU Geomicrobiology-Biogeochemistry Laboratory (ITU-GBL), in partnership with the Department of Space and…

    Out of this world research: UGA analyzes and names new meteorite UGA Today By Savannah Peat     Geologists study space rock that crash-landed in a Georgia residence A mysterious extraterrestrial visitor now has a permanent home and identity, thanks to University of Georgia researchers. The newly named McDonough Meteorite crash landed in Atlanta on June 26 after catching eyes across the Southeast as the fireball streaked…

  AGU – Advances: "Several Kilometers of Global Contraction on Mercury: A Sample-Size Independent Assessment of Fault Strain"     Authors:  Dr. Stephan R. Loveless 1 and  Dr. Christian Klimczak 1 1 Center for Planetary Tectonics at UGA, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA,    Abstract Mercury underwent global contraction due to the sustained cooling of the planet. Positive-relief…

  Congratulations to Davis Huber, who received an Honorable Mention for his talk on Georgia’s barrier islands and climate change at the annual AAAS meeting in Boston this year!   25 Years of Climate Change Threaten to Shrink Georgia’s Barrier Islands and Marshes AAAS Annual Meeting 2025   Background: Barrier islands in the southeastern United States are diverse habitats, efficient carbon sinks, sources of industry and economy, and…