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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Celebrating our partners: USACE Sustainability Award – Leveraging Partnership
Our partners at the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program have been honored with the prestigious USACE sustainability award for their remarkable achievements in leveraging partnerships. EWN stands at the forefront of transformative innovation, demonstrating the incredible potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to enhance our nation’s infrastructure. EWN’s commitment to…
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IRIS Hosts a Summer Young Scholar Program Student
Meet our Young Scholar Program student, Samuel Cox! Sam spent six weeks this summer working with IRIS affiliates Dr. Félix Santiago-Collazo and Orlando Viloria-Marimón in the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) Lab, as part of the Summer Youth Program. The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a paid five-week summer internship for high school students interested in environmental…
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Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States
In past decades, dams were installed across the United States to help control the flow of rivers and supply water or hydroelectric energy to communities. However, these aging structures pose public safety threats, as well as disrupting aquatic ecosystems and harming biodiversity in freshwater systems, all while costing expensive maintenance fees. This nexus of factors…
Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Based in Athens, Georgia
Contact:
Gin Bacon Talati
vbtalati@uga.edu
Sarah Buckleitner
sarah.buckleitner@uga.edu