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Mackenzi Hulse
Coastal Resilience Engineer mackenzie.hulse@uga.edu Mackenzie Hulse is a Coastal Resilience Engineer for IRIS. She earned her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Georgia in 2025. Throughout her time at UGA, she focused on water resource management and geospatial analysis, using advanced software to develop her skills in watershed modeling. Mackenzie has worked with both […]
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Carly Ornstein
Project Coordinator carly.ornstein@uga.edu Carly Ornstein is a project coordinator for IRIS. She holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland and a Masters of Public Health from the George Washington University. Carly has worked as a public health leader for over a decade, mostly in the field of lung health and cancer screening. […]
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Bjorn Birgisson, P.E.
Chair, School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering Bjorn.Birggison@uga.edu Dr. Bjorn Birgisson is the Professor and School Chair of the University of Georgia College of Engineering. He previously served as a professor at Texas A&M University, where he was Director for the Center for Infrastructure Renewal and a TEES Distinguished Research Professor. He was […]




