Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

EEES Students Win Big in Georgia

A team of four seniors in Environmental Engineering took the top prize in an annual competition hosted by the Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP), in April 2021.  The winning team consisted of Danny Greene, Evan Groome, Danielle Larsen, and Curtis McClelland.  Their project involved a detailed engineering design study of alternatives methods to treat […]

Patrohay Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Evan Patrohay, a senior in Biosystems Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.  This placed Evan as one of just 12 students nationally to be granted this opportunity.  As a Fulbright Scholar, Evan will be traveling to Tromso, Norway, a town high above the Arctic Circle, to study the effects of climate change on the […]

What Does the Past Tell Us About Ocean Circulation and Climate Change?

If you want to make good predictions of the future, it sometimes pays to look into the past.  In this case, the distant past.  Dr. Alex Pullen, Assistant Professor in EEES, and his colleagues recently published an article in GSA Bulletin exploring the existence a 30-million-year-old river that rivalled the size of today’s Amazon. The […]