Gemma OConnor

Gemma OConnor

Gemma is a 5th year Industrial Engineering major at Georgia Tech. She is very passionate about climate science and conducts paleoclimate research that uses coral geochemistry to reconstruct temperature records in the central tropical Pacific.

Marie Tharp: An Idol for Female Scientists

You’ve all heard about the theory of continental drift, right? You’ve heard of Pangaea and how the tectonic plates move around? This is something I remember learning about in elementary school and have always thought of as a theory that…

How Corals Changed My Life

I’m a fifth year undergraduate at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying industrial and systems engineering, and I plan to attend graduate school this Fall–but not for anything related to industrial and systems engineering. I plan to pursue a PhD…

5 Alternative Facts on Climate Change Disproved

Government officials are making several claims about one of today’s hottest topics, climate change, yet are lacking some scientific proof… 1. Global Warming is a hoax. An overwhelming majority of the scientific community agrees that global warming is a real…