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School of Biological Sciences researcher Nastassia Patin dives near a blue hole off Florida's western coast.

In "blue hole" underwater sinkholes off the coast of western Florida, researchers from the Schools of Biological Sciences, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences don oxygen tanks and custom science equipment to study previously unexplored marine environments. Their discoveries in blue holes' ‘natural enclosed laboratory for anaerobic microbes’ are the subject of a new episode of "Changing Seas", a South Florida PBS television program.

Loren Williams (right) in his lab at Georgia Tech in 2018, where Marcus Bray (left) observes a sample inside a sealed atmospheric tent that simulates atmospheric gas mixtures during Earth's earliest eon. Photo: Allison Carter

Astrobiologists are using their expertise to help produce necessary components for Covid-19 test kits in the state of Georgia.

Collin Spencer, Jed Foundation Student Voice of Mental Health Award honoree.

Biology graduate receives Student Voice of Mental Health Award Honoree from The Jed Foundation.

Classroom Discussion Photo: Rob Felt

Led by Biological Sciences' Lesley Baradel and Christie Stewart, pilot course APPH 1802 shows Tech students how to approach mental health and wellbeing through a new lens. 

Researchers in Krone Building

As planning committees examine how to safely ramp up research activities, we talked to two campus leaders about possible next steps.