Project highlights
The Network for Engineering With Nature
IRIS is one of the founding partners in a collaboration with the US Army Corps of Engineers to accelerate the practice of Engineering With Nature
Redefining infrastructure for a more
equitable, resilient world
Who are we?
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and educators from over a dozen departments at the University of Georgia. Our research is designed to be put directly in the hands of our stakeholders, to be used as tools in creating real-world change.
About natural infrastructure
Learn about how melding natural and conventional
infrastructure can create resilient communities,
industries and ecosystems
IRIS News
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IRIS presents at the Association of State Flood Plain Managers Workshop
This past week, IRIS affiliates Haley Selsor, Matt Chambers and Ben Carswell attended the State Flood Plain Managers workshop, which is part of a suite of resources tailored for floodplain management professionals around the country, offered by the Association of State Floodplain Managers. At the workshop, Chambers gave a presentation titled, “Quantifying and monetizing natural […]
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IRIS affiliate Christina Fuller partners with new EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center
UGA to lead efforts to address environmental justice in Georgia — full story on UGA College of Engineering, by Lillian Ballance ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia College of Engineering will serve as one of eight university partners with nonprofit research institute RTI International to establish a new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ […]
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Insurance company AXA XL visits UGA in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration
With increasingly extreme weather, building resilient communities is a top priority across the nation. However, the factors that make a community or ecosystem resilient are often extremely complex, and require an interdisciplinary approach to understand and cultivate. Further, barriers like public perception of natural infrastructure, how city planners and practitioners value the co-benefits of natural […]
Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Based in Athens, Georgia
Contact:
Gin Bacon Talati
vbtalati@uga.edu
Sarah Buckleitner
sarah.buckleitner@uga.edu