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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 27, 2018
A. Maureen Rouhi, Ph.D.
Director of Communications
College of Sciences
Summary Sentence:
Jenny McGuire explains in ScienceMatters, Season 1, Episode 2.
Full Summary:
Jenny McGuire, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Biological Sciences, has a tough commute to her summer research site: an 80-foot drop into a deep, dark Wyoming cave. McGuire studies fossils to better understand climate change’s impact on animal and human populations.
Jenny McGuire Stars in ScienceMatters, Season 1, Episode 2
Vineeth Aljapur, ScienceMatters quiz winnerEpisode 2 of ScienceMatters' Season 1 stars Jenny McGuire. The assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Biological Sciences has a tough commute to her summer research site: An 80-foot drop into Wyoming’s deep, dark Natural Trap Cave. There she collects fossils that she hopes will yield clues about the impact of climate change on animal and human populations.
Follow her journey at sciencematters.gatech.edu.
Enter to win a prize by answering the episode's question:
What small four-legged animals mentioned in Episode 2 help Jenny McGuire collect bones from Natural Trap Cave?
Submit your entry by noon on Friday, Aug. 31, at sciencematters.gatech.edu. Answer and winner will be announced on Monday, Sept. 3.
Congratulations to Vineeth Aljapur, winner of Episode 1 quiz. Aljapur is a first-year student in the Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program.
