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Georgia Tech Experts Weigh In on Massive Turkey-Syria Earthquake

The death toll is believed to have topped more than 30,000  after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated south-central Turkey and northwestern Syria. The disaster zone is home to more than 13 million people in Turkey and an unknown number in a region of Syria torn by civil war. It’s an area that stretches beyond the distance from Atlanta to Kentucky.

A screenshot from a Nils Berglund video of a Bunimovich stadium in action. (Courtesy Nils Berglund)

Georgia Tech mathematician Leonid Bunimovich’s eponymous innovations bring fame within his discipline as he visualizes dynamical systems — with an ultimate goal of predicting and finding probabilities within unknown evolution, and helping mathematicians and physicists with the ‘vision of chaotic dynamics’. 

 

A school of planktivorous fish sheltering around a coral on a reef in the Solomon Islands in the Coral Triangle. Photo by Mark Hay

In the face of climate change, Annalisa Bracco, professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Lyuba Novi, a postdoctoral researcher, offer a new methodology that could revolutionize how conservationists monitor coral. 

Vice President Kamala Harris

With the Ferst Center filled to the brim Wednesday, Georgia Tech hosted Vice President Kamala Harris for a discussion about the climate crisis, which she called a transformational moment in America.

Association for Psychological Science Rising Stars

The Association for Psychological Science (APS) recognizes French in its annual list of impactful early career researchers around the world. 

 

Spruce-fir boreal forest in western North Carolina

Plants, like animals and people, seek refuge from climate change. And when they move, they take entire ecosystems with them. To understand why and how plants have trekked across landscapes throughout time, researchers at the forefront of conservation are calling for a new framework. The key to protecting biodiversity in the future may be through understanding the past.