{"595297":{"#nid":"595297","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Another Danger of the Harvey Flood: Floating Fire Ants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThose scenes of floating fire ant \u0026quot;rafts\u0026quot; plaguing flooding\u0026nbsp;victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston? \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hu.gatech.edu\/0-hu-cv-word-htm\/\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, first examined that nightmare scenario in 2011.\u0026nbsp;That was when\u0026nbsp;Hu\u0026nbsp;and his research team published a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3093451\/\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E on how ants\u0026nbsp;lock legs to form the\u0026nbsp;rafts. You also may recall his \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/7\/170475\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E from earlier this summer\u0026nbsp;on how the ants don\u0026#39;t just spread out when threatened; they can also \u0026quot;perpetually rebuild\u0026quot; towers made of their own bodies.\u0026nbsp;Hu is also an adjunct associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-08-30 15:13:37","changed_gmt":"2017-08-30 15:14:36","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"stitch-chips","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/harveys-other-danger-fire-ants-180964657\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"382241":{"id":"382241","type":"image","title":"David Hu","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1493396247","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 16:17:27","alt":"Daivd Hu","file":{"fid":"75309","name":"hu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24895,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hu.jpg?itok=3IFHegGR"}}},"media_ids":["382241"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"175355","name":"ant rafts"},{"id":"174903","name":"ant towers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}