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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The warning comes from a study of 14,189 fossil pollen samples taken from 358 locations across the continent. Scientists at Georgia Tech used data from the samples to determine landscape resilience, including how long specific landscapes such as forests and grasslands existed, a factor known as residence time, and how well they rebounded following perturbations such as forest fires, a factor termed recovery.
