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GSU Geosciences The Department of Geosciences at Georgia State University. Geography, Geology & Water Sciences 🌎🌍🌏 Geosciences is Going Places, Why Don't You Join Us?

GSU Geosciences is the place to be for cutting edge research and education into the world around us. Our students, faculty, and staff are engaged in studying the geology and geochemistry of the natural world, physical and human geography, and challenges faced by communities and cities and their solutions. In addition to our disciplinary scholarship and education in Earth Systems, People Places & E

nvironment, and Cities, we also offer cross-cutting expertise in Geospatial Science using the latest GIS and mobile technologies.

Our next summer story is from Eileen Mburu, M.S. in Geosciences. Eileen won first place in the 2026 Georgia Geospatial A...
08/31/2026

Our next summer story is from Eileen Mburu, M.S. in Geosciences. Eileen won first place in the 2026 Georgia Geospatial Association Virtual Map Competition! Later in the summer, she traveled to San Diego to participate in the ESRI User Conference as a Student Assistant. Her winning GGA map, "The Geography of Climate Change Discourse in the United State: Public Perceptions from Twitter (2015-2019)" was featured in the conference's Interactive Map Gallery! She was able to engaged with the latest GIS technology at the world's largest geospatial gathering and connect with GIS practitioners and researchers leading in the field. You can see her map here: https://map-competition-2026-gageospatial.hub.arcgis.com/

Join us at 4 pm today in Langdale 600 for our Faculty and Student Club Showcase! This will be followed by a reception in...
08/27/2026

Join us at 4 pm today in Langdale 600 for our Faculty and Student Club Showcase! This will be followed by a reception in Langdale 730. A great chance for students of all levels to get involved!

We are excited to share some of the amazing things our students got up to this summer! Jake Ferus, M.S. in Geosciences, ...
08/26/2026

We are excited to share some of the amazing things our students got up to this summer! Jake Ferus, M.S. in Geosciences, arch Center with the Disaster Response Coordination System (DRCS) where he helped refine and construct reliable processes to ensure NASA's mission and support Emergency Manager's needs. He was able to provide Earth observation imagery for the Venezuela Earthquakes, Typhoon Bavi, and the Colorado Wildfires. This internship inspired new passions within stem, highlighted a love for disaster management, and taught how work is structured within the federal government.

Geoscience faculty toured the Georgia Aquarium this week to learn about their water treatment processes before putting o...
08/21/2026

Geoscience faculty toured the Georgia Aquarium this week to learn about their water treatment processes before putting our heads together to prepare for this fall. We can't wait to welcome all our students on Monday and kick off a great fall semester!

Dr. Richard Milligan led a team of authors including Dr. Katherine Hankins and Dr. Sarah Ledford along with Dr. Na'Taki ...
08/18/2026

Dr. Richard Milligan led a team of authors including Dr. Katherine Hankins and Dr. Sarah Ledford along with Dr. Na'Taki Osborne Jelks from Spelman and Dr. Tyler McCreary at Florida State in this new paper in Environment and Planning F. In this paper they place recent green stormwater infrastructure projects in Atlanta in the context of historical geographies. They find that current sustainability discourses and practices reproduce rather than repair the long history of whiteness in environmental governance in Atlanta. Congratulations to the author team! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26349825261466655

The Community-Soil-Air-Water learning ecosystem in the Department of Geosciences was lucky enough to host 8 amazing unde...
08/04/2026

The Community-Soil-Air-Water learning ecosystem in the Department of Geosciences was lucky enough to host 8 amazing undergraduate researchers this summer though our REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program. Students worked with community members to co-develop research projects around green space, household water insecurity, and air quality. Students joined from GSU, Spelman, Mount Holyoke, Cornell, Smith, Arizona State, Weber State, and University of Minnesota Duluth. More info on CSAW is available here: https://csaw47.wixstudio.com/csaw and more info on the REU is here: https://sites.google.com/view/csaw-reu

And the wins keep rolling in! Congratulations to Aaron Pacheco for successfully defending his M.S. thesis, titled “Persi...
07/27/2026

And the wins keep rolling in! Congratulations to Aaron Pacheco for successfully defending his M.S. thesis, titled “Persistent Patterns of Pollution: Rethinking Environmental Justice Hotspots in Atlanta”. Great work Aaron!

Congratulations to Lynesia Denson for successfully defending her M.S. thesis this week! Her thesis was titled “Moved and...
07/23/2026

Congratulations to Lynesia Denson for successfully defending her M.S. thesis this week! Her thesis was titled “Moved and Made in the Logistical Fix of Clayton County”. Lynesia is heading to Rutgers this fall to start her PhD in Geography! We are so proud!

Congratulations to Dr. Elliott for being awarded the 2026 Brindley Lecture award from the Clay Minerals Society for his ...
07/17/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Elliott for being awarded the 2026 Brindley Lecture award from the Clay Minerals Society for his work on kaolins and rare-earth elements. The Brindley Lecture award is given in recognition of a clay scientist who has performed innovative research and who has introduced the Society to new ideas.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Daniel Gebregiorgis, former GSU GEOS students Nabil Murshed, Lisa Duong, and ...
07/13/2026

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Daniel Gebregiorgis, former GSU GEOS students Nabil Murshed, Lisa Duong, and Jennifer Bash, and Professor Dr. W Crawford Elliott for their new P3 paper! They found paleolake Olduvai in northern Tanzania was once freshwater. Like to paper in comments!

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