Over the next six months, fifty student and community scientists are helping map Atlanta’s hotspots by collecting local temperature data with high-tech mobile sensors through the hottest months of the summer as part of a new initiative: UrbanHeatATL. UrbanHeatATL is using this community-driven science to better understand how extreme heat impacts Atlanta’s most vulnerable residents. The project is co-lead by Spelman College and Georgia Tech faculty, in collaboration with the City of Atlanta Dept. of Sustainability.and local NGO’s, including the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance and the Partnership for Southern Equity.
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New energy-efficient LED lights have been installed in a wing of the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience building thanks to three Georgia Tech students, whose proposal for energy-saving initiatives within the building won the 2019 Carbon Reduction Challenge. When fully implemented, it will result in over 250,000 pounds of CO2 reductions per year.
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