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Supporting Community-Led Flood Resilience

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Alex Robel
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<p>Alex Robel</p>

Mercury ID
681109
Sep 09, 2026

The CHORUS research project will combine advanced flood modeling, artificial intelligence, and community partnerships to help coastal residents in Georgia and New York evaluate flooding solutions and shape resilience planning.

Nine BBISS Faculty Fellows Appointed

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<p>(L to R, Top to Bottom) Heidi Biggs, Jennifer Bowen, Gaurav Doshi, Xindi He, Guoxiang (Emma) Hu, Suhas Jain, Patrick Kastner, Cindy Kaiying Lin, and Julia Yang.</p>

Mercury ID
681058
Sep 03, 2026

The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) has appointed nine new faculty fellows for 2026, selected for their leadership in sustainability research.

Getting Food to the Neighborhoods That Need It Most

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<p>L to R: Carl DiSalvo, Ingeborg Rocker, Nicole Kennard, Johannes Milz, and Vanshika Kumar.</p>

Mercury ID
681003
Aug 28, 2026

Nicole Kennard researches Atlanta's food system using mapping and visualization techniques.

Georgia Tech Engineer Rethinks Supply Chains for Community Resilience

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Sofía Pérez-Guzmán
Mercury ID
680827
Aug 10, 2026

Through BBISS, Pérez-Guzmán co-leads a community resilience network of roughly 40 to 50 practitioners and researchers working on community-led resilience hubs across Georgia and South Carolina.

Hope Among the Pines: A Field Tour in Southeast Georgia Presents Carbon Exchange as Solution

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<p>Field tour attendees in Soperton, Georgia. </p>

Mercury ID
680696
Jul 28, 2026

The Georgia Carbon Exchange can provide economic incentives to help landowners keep and manage their forests for carbon sequestration, with benefits to impact the entire state.

Georgia Tech Launches New Sustainable Lab Certification

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<p>Research technician Myles Hilson (left) and research scientist Shweta Biliya (right) of the Molecular Evolution Core Lab stand in front of TipCycle program equipment. TipCycle collects, sterilizes, and returns pipette tips to labs, reducing costs and decreasing plastic waste.&nbsp;</p>

Mercury ID
680673
Jul 22, 2026

Campus labs have a new pathway to strengthen sustainable operations through a campus comprehensive certification program.

Rapid Testing Offers Path to More Sustainable Material Choices

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Mercury ID
680664
Jul 24, 2026

At Georgia Tech’s Daedalus Lab, Christos Athanasiou and postdoctoral researcher Danqi Sun are working to provide greater certainty to designers and engineers by rethinking how materials are tested for their fracture characteristics.

Bruce Weinelt Joins BBISS as Managing Director

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Mercury ID
680510
Jun 24, 2026

Bruce will develop and lead BBISS’s external partnership and fundraising strategy, grounded in the Institute's academic research priorities.

Scientist Maps Biodiversity on a Warming Southern Landscape

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Jenny McGuire, Ph.D.
Mercury ID
660288
Jun 11, 2026

Jenny McGuire is refining tools and partnerships that help protect biodiversity, from Atlanta’s urban canopy to the southern Appalachians.

2026-2027 Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grants Announced

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Mercury ID
680389
Jun 01, 2026

The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Sustainability Education and Curriculum Committee are pleased to announce the recipients of the fifth round of Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation grants.

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