July 2024
We got the money! Dr. B and Dr. Lauren Speare (GT Biological Sciences) were selected to receive funds from the Georgia Tech Climate Action SEI/BBISS Challenge in support of their co-led proposal, “Macro- and Microscale Drivers of Coral Reef Resilience in a Changing Climate”. Woot!
June 2024
Dr. B traveled to Stony Brook University to participate in and give an invited (!!!) oral presentation to the Blueprints for Resilience workshop, a gathering aimed at bringing together a diverse set of experts in coral reef science to identify and scale the best conservation interventions globally. His contribution was titled, “Geochemical Tools for Fingerprinting the Compositional and Metabolic Structure of Reef Ecosystems”.
May 2024
Congratulations to Aminata for finishing their Masters of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Science! Starting June 1st, they will be transitioning to a new role as Lab Manager / Research Scientist I. They will serve as both “point-person” for various instruments in the lab as well as the lead science communication and research liaison for the group’s engagement with Atlanta and the broader region.
Congratulations also to Brooke and Nihal for graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Science, and to Anna for graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Biology! Nihal will be staying at Tech for another year to complete the BS/MS program in EAS. Brooke will be remaining in the EAS department as an Assistant Lab Coordinator for the Intro to Environmental Science (EAS1600) class. Anna will be taking a little bit of time to travel before diving right back into oceanography as a research technician on an upcoming research cruise from Coastal Georgia to Long Island. All awesome stuff – great job team!
April 2024
Congratulations to both Isa and Maggie for receiving the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)! They were two of 60 graduate students at Georgia Tech awarded this fellowship.
We published a thing! “Geochemical Evidence of Temporal Ecosystem Photosynthetic Plasticity within a Pristine Coral Atoll” can be found here.
Brooke and Anna each did a great job presenting posters on their respective undergraduate research endeavors at the GT Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium. Brooke’s poster was titled “Diagenetically-altered Orbicella faveolata results in higher-than-expected SSTs for the LIG”. Anna’s poster was titled “Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios as a Diagnostic Tool for Calcifier Community Dynamics in Coral Reef Ecosystems”. Well done!
The whole CO3@GT Gang made came out to the 11th Annual Southeastern Biogeochemical Symposium, which was hosted by Georgia State University. Anna and Aminata delivered a well-received shared poster presentation titled “Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios as a Diagnostic Tool for Calcifier Community Dynamics in Coral Reef Ecosystems”.
February 2024
Dr. B held it down with some CO3@GT representation at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, LA. He presented a poster titled, “δ13CDIC and Organic Carbon Fractionation Factors as Evidence of Hourly Ecosystem Photosynthetic Plasticity within a Pristine Coral Atoll“.
December 2023
Dr. B and Isa traveled to UCLA to meet with colleagues and plan the future steps/research goals for ongoing paleoclimate + marine archeology + biogeochemistry synthesis research in St. Croix!
November 2023
Aminata traveled to Phoenix, AZ to deliver a poster presentation titled, “Assessment of Coral Reef Ecosystem Trace Element Cycling and Climate Variability via ICP Techniques” at the 2023 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS).
Dr. B traveled to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to give an invited (!!!) talk at the 2023 National Society of Black Physicists Conference. The talk was titled, “The Complicating Impacts of Water Flow on Coral Reef Metabolism”.
September 2023
We published a thing! “Temporal Variability in Seawater Sr/Ca Ratios within Coral Reef Environments as an Indicator of Marine Calcifier Community Diversity” can be found here.
August 2023
The lab space is (mostly) finished!!! Just in time for the new recruits:
David Clark – B.S. Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Georgia Tech, 2023)
Isabelle Osuna – B.S. Oceanography (University of Washington, 2023)
Maggie Gordon – B.S. Geology (University of South Carolina, 2023)
Hannah Quick – B.S. Earth & Environmental Sciences (Vanderbilt University, 2021)
July 2023
We got the money! Dr. B (lead PI) and collaborating lab groups at Vanderbilt University, Princeton University, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center, were selected for funding by the National Science Foundation’s Paleo Perspectives on Present and Projected Climate (P4CLIMATE) program for their proposal titled, “Collaborative Research: Reconstructions of Southern Caribbean Climate Variability using Contemporaneous and Co-Located Corals and Speleothems”. Woot!
March 2023
We got the money! Dr. B (co-PI) and collaborator Dr. Justin Dunnavant (lead PI) at UCLA were selected for funding by the National Geographic Society’s Level II Explorer Program for their proposal titled, “The Environmental Impacts of the Slave Trade: Coral Mining in St. Croix”. Woot!
February 2023
Dr. B had the unique opportunity to co-moderate (alongside UGA’s Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd) a conversation on climate change with Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts!
