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  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…
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Dr. Milewski named as UGA Faculty Innovation Fellows

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…
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Dr. Nurgul Balci launches An International Project Examining Turkey's Rocks for Future Planetary Missions

    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…
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Planetary Geology research at UGA highlighted with the 27th meteorite recovered in Georgia.

  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…
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Dr. Klimczak and Dr. Loveless have a new publication in AGU Advances

  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…
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Geology Undergraduate Davis Huber receives Honorable Mention at annual AAAS meeting.

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Geology Colloquium Series - Fall 2025

  Emerging Contaminants (Elsevier): “Anion-mediated pathways in organophosphate degradation in the Oconee River watershed in Georgia”       Authors:  Grace Stamm a,b, Gayatri Basapuram a, Srimanti Duttagupta a, Avishek Dutta a,c a - Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA b - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA c - Savannah River Ecological…
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Grace Stamm, undergraduate researcher in the Geomicrobiology Lab, has published her first paper in Emerging Contaminants.

  NPI - Emerging Contaminants: "Land use and land cover shape organic contaminant distribution in the Oconee River watershed in Georgia."     Authors:  Dr. Srimanti Duttagupta1 , Gayatri Basapuram1, William Cottrell2, and Dr. Avishek Dutta1,3 1-Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. 2-J.G. Beacham Water Treatment Plant, Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, Athens, GA, 30601, USA 3-Savannah…
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Dr. Duttagupta leads study that examines the influence of land-use patterns on the distribution of organic contaminants.

Science Advances: "Reorientation and despinning of 4 Vesta formed the Divalia Fossae"   Authors:  Dr. Hiu Ching Jupiter Cheng 1,2 , Dr. Christian Klimczak 1, Isamu Matsuyama3 1-Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. 2-Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA. 3-Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.   Abstract:…
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Dr. Klimczak co-authors paper exploring the rotational history of asteroid Vesta and how it is preserved in its geological record.

GEM adds new X-ray microtomography instrument through $1.2M NSF grant by Olivia Randall      UGA’s Georgia Electron Microscopy (GEM) core facility has acquired an X-ray computed microtomography (micro-CT) scanner, a powerful tool for non-destructive, three-dimensional imaging that greatly expands the unit’s imaging capabilities. Funded by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant…
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Dr. Garing leads effort in acquiring new X-ray Micro-CT housed at the GEM facility

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