News
2026
October 17th:
Dr. Bowen, Jae, and Claire attended the inaugural Biennial Okefenokee Science Symposium and visited the Okefenokee Swamp in southern Georgia, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
September 19th:
Xavier presented on his research at the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry Fall Retreat!
August 27th:
Isabel received the Rutt Bridges Award for Undergraduate Research to support her research this year! We also officially moved into the new lab space.
August 12th:
This week, Dr. Bowen and Claire completed the summer field campaign in Fairbanks and traveled back to Georgia Tech with over 200 water samples that Claire and her field team collected throughout the summer.
August 12th:
The group wished Parson farewell before starting his PhD program at the University of Maryland.
July 17th:
Jae finished her REU program and presented her research findings at the REU symposium!
May 21st:
This week, Dr. Bowen, Claire, and Jae traveled to Fairbanks, Alaska, for a week of field and lab work in collaboration with the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. At the end of the week, Dr. Bowen and Jae went back to Georgia Tech, while Claire stayed to collect weekly water samples, monitor peatland greenhouse gas emissions, and more for the entire summer season.
April 20th:
Today was the 13th Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium, hosted here at Georgia Tech. Abhinav, Claire, Isabel, Mariana, and Parson presented their research at the poster session after a day of interesting research presentations from a variety of students and post docs.
April 16th:
Isabel, Mariana, and Abhinav presented their research at the 20th Annual Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium in a poster session.
April 14th:
Claire and Abhinav received the Rutt Bridges Award for Undergraduate Research to support their research over the summer!
April 2nd:
Dr. Bowen and Dr. Lily Dove were awarded a BBISS Sustainability Next Seed Grant to pursue a new project on Arctic ocean biogeochemistry: https://news.research.gatech.edu/2026/05/04/2026-sustainability-next-seed-grants-awarded
January 23rd:
Dr. Bowen and Dr. Nisa Novita traveled to The Nature Conservancy - Durham office to talk about peatlands and see the famous pocosin peat.