Posts by Science for Georgia
ST&T – Adopt-A-Stream: Citizen Science and Healthy Waters
Georgia Adopt-A-Stream encourages and supports community members interested in collecting water quality data, ranging from dissolved oxygen to crayfish abundance. These data are then used by the community, local organizations,…
Read MoreCleaning Up an Urban Creek at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve
by Sarah Poletti, Conservation Research Bridge Program, Amphibian Foundation The Blue Heron Nature Preserve is a pocket of nature hidden in the Buckhead area of metro-Atlanta. The preserve serves the…
Read MoreDroplet, Aerosol, Airborne, what’s the difference? And do I still have to wear a mask?
by Alexandra Wickson, MPH and Amy Sharma, PhD You might have heard a lot of new terms recently used to talk about COVID-19. Aerosol, droplet, and airborne are a few…
Read MoreGo Outside and be a Good Steward
It’s pirate month! Argh matey! This past week I went on vacation to Florida. And while we drove by packed crowds at the beach and bars, we also drove through…
Read MoreTavern: Bendable Concrete
Qingxu “Bill” Jin, Ph.D., LEED GA, E.I.T.Georgia Institute of Technology With increasing worldwide urbanization, the urban population has increased from 700 million in 1950 to 4.2 billion in 2018. The…
Read MoreST&T Hummingbird Song
Fernanda Gisselle Duque Mendoza studies how hummingbirds have adapted to communicate in challenging environments and discovered that some species of hummingbirds produce unusually high-pitched songs. She continues to study these…
Read MoreTicks: Real Life Vampires
by Alexandra Wickson, MPH What are ticks? Ticks are parasitic insects that feed on the blood of people and other animals. They have four life stages: egg, larva, nymph, and…
Read MoreWe stand united with the protesters
At Science for Georgia, we believe that we are obligated as humans to name injustice in plain language when we see it. This past week, we have seen a police…
Read MoreLooking to the Future of Pandemic Response
In the past months, Covid-19 has exposed major gaps in the safety nets required to protect our society and how it can react during national crisis. How did we get to this point? Could…
Read More3 Steps to Getting Back to Business Post Covid-19
Independence by July 4 We want to get everyone safely back to work and out of their homes by Independence Day. This might sound farfetched, but it is not impossible. What we need to do is TEST, TEST, TEST. Below, we…
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