Climate / Weather
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May 10, 2012 | General News
UGA, Georgia Sea Grant help Tybee Island prepare for potentially rising seas
The University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government and Georgia Sea Grant are developing a climate adaptation plan for the barrier island community of Tybee Island through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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April 13, 2012 | Research News
Mohan receives National Science Foundation grant to study ‘forests of the future’
University of Georgia ecologist Jacqueline Mohan has received a $554,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop more accurate predictions about the impacts of climate change on forests. Her project is part of a five-year collaborative effort led by James Clark of Duke University.
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March 26, 2012 | Events on Campus
One Health mini-symposium to focus on climate change, infectious disease
On April 3, experts from the University of Georgia, Emory University and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom will spend the afternoon sharing their One Health perspectives on how a changing climate might impact the incidence of infectious diseases in both people and animals around the globe.
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March 20, 2012 | Research News
UGA heat study guides new GHSA rules aiming to prevent exertional heat illness, deaths
High school student-athletes need about 10-14 days to acclimate their bodies to the heat stress in preseason practices in late July and August each year and gradual acclimatization to these conditions can help minimize the risk of exertional heat illnesses, or EHI, according to a three-year study by University of Georgia researchers.
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February 27, 2012 | Research News
Deaths triple among football players, morning temperatures thought to play a role
Athens, Ga. - Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the previous 15 years, according to an analysis of weather conditions and high school and college sports data conducted by University of Georgia researchers.
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January 6, 2012 | Honors & Awards
Marshall Shepherd voted president-elect of American Meteorological Society
Marshall Shepherd, professor of geography in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been voted president-elect of the American Meteorological Society.
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October 13, 2011 | General News
Georgia begins monitoring potential coastal drought impacts
Georgia resource managers, coastal scientists from diverse institutions and Georgia Sea Grant staff at the University of Georgia are working to coordinate a response to potential drought impacts along the Georgia coast.
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September 20, 2011 | General News
Gulf Coast residents underestimate hurricane destructiveness, UGA study
Three new studies led by University of Georgia weather and climate psychologist Alan Stewart suggest that people living near the U.S. Gulf Coast may systemically underestimate the damages that some hurricanes can produce when landfall occurs.
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August 18, 2011 | Research News
UGA physicist helps uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
Early Earth's atmosphere provided little shielding for ultraviolet light from space, so many prebiotic molecules, bombarded by it and light of other wavelengths, had a hard time surviving at all. But some molecules became photostable-able to withstand the assault and thrive as building blocks of life.
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June 22, 2011 | General News
Northern Eurasian snowpack could be an important predictor of winter weather in U. S., team from UGA
Every winter, weather forecasters talk about the snow cover in the northern U.S. and into Canada as a factor in how deep the deep-freeze will be in the states. A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia indicates they may be looking, at least partially, in the wrong place.
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May 27, 2011 | General News
UGA Costa Rica serves as living biodiversity lab for Costa Rican students
The University of Georgia's satellite campus in Costa Rica recently hosted a group of 97 Costa Rican high school students for the first Lincoln School Fit4Earth: Ninth Grade Biodiversity Challenge.
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May 25, 2011 | Research News
UGA researchers awarded $1.34 million USDA climate change grant
Researchers and an outreach specialist at the University of Georgia have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to identify and promote ways pine forests can be used to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The grant is part of a larger $20 million award being coordinated by the University of Florida, which is leading an 11-university consortium to conduct research, extension and outreach education about the potential for pine trees as a climate change solution.
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May 18, 2011 | General News
UGA professors to lead Weather Workshop for Bibb County teachers May 23-27
A team of science and educational experts led by a University of Georgia psychologist and atmospheric scientist will teach a group of Bibb County school teachers what they should teach their students about the science of weather and how to respond safely when it threatens.
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May 11, 2011 | Research News
UGA scientists discover missing links in the biology of cloud formation over the oceans
Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, or DMS, goes into the atmosphere, where it leads to water droplet formation - the basis of clouds that cool the Earth. In the other, a sulfur compound goes into the ocean's food web, where it is eaten and returned to seawater.
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May 3, 2011 | Honors & Awards
UGA weather forecasters place high in national tournament
At almost the same time that tornadoes and violent weather were devastating the South, a team of weather forecasters from the University of Georgia made a strong showing in a national weather forecasting contest.