2010.02.08 Sciencewatch.com ranks Georgia Tech as #6 most cited institution in the world in engineering. "Aerosol composition studies" is included in a list of the six most highly cited areas for the institution. http://sciencewatch.com/inter/ins/10/10febTOP20ENG/ 2010.01.29 James Belanger receives award for Best Student Presentation at the AMS Applied Climatology Conference n/a 2010.01.26 Dr. Paul Wine's new study documents reaction rates for three key greenhouse gases. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=49711 2010.01.04 Ted Russell has been elected to Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/1218fellows.shtml 2009.12.17 Peter Webster discusses climate change in Africa on CNN http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2009/12/16/ia.climate.analysis.bk.c.cnn 2009.11.23 Professor Zhigang Peng and Graduate Student Peng Zhao in Nature Geoscience on the migration of early aftershocks following the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=47422 2009.11.19 Samar Khatiwala in Nature finds that oceans are becoming less effective in carbon dioxide uptake. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/science/earth/19oceans.html?hpw 2009.11.09 Richard Moore (advisor Thanos Nenes) won the Best Student Poster Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research for "Scanning Flow CCN Analysis: A Method for Fast Measurements of CCN Spectra" http://www.aaar.org/ 2009.10.29 Climate change dialogue: scientists engage the faith based community at Mercer University http://www.macon.com/local/story/896722.html 2009.09.25 EAS is searching for a new faculty member in solid earth geosciences. http://www.eas.gatech.edu/files/eosadvert10_2.pdf 2009.09.24 EAS alumnus Laura Griffith on the Atlanta floods (CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/09/22/atlanta.weather.science/index.html 2009.09.08 James Belanger, Judith Curry, and Carlos Hoyos on the increase of tornadoes associated with hurricanes making landfall in the Gulf of Mexico http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=41229 2009.08.15 Rodney Weber, Greg Huey, Thanos Nenes, and Yuhang Wang receive the NASA Group Achievement Award for participation in the ARCTAS field campaigns as part of the International Polar Year http://www.espo.nasa.gov/arctas/ 2009.08.13 Recent EAS B.S. recipient Daniel Tkacik featured in NPR story "Earth Science From the Sky: The Next Generation" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111729050 2009.08.06 Carol Paty receives NASA Group Achievement Award given to the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Team. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/2