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  • Listening In On Levee Setbacks

    Listening In On Levee Setbacks

    IRIS researchers are tuning in to how riverine infrastructure shapes the landscape–and soundscape–of ecosystems. As part of a NASA-funded research effort, assistant professor Charles van Rees and his research team have deployed automated recording units, or ARUs, across study sites on the Missouri River to listen in on the local wildlife with the help of […]

  • Nature-Based Approaches to Disaster Resilience Can Yield Big Returns in States

    Nature-Based Approaches to Disaster Resilience Can Yield Big Returns in States

    Across the country, state governments are faced with the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters and the compounding scarcity of resources to plan for and lessen their impacts. With these unprecedented challenges likely to grow, state leaders are turning to one another to share best practices and lessons learned to increase resilience.

  • New Resilient Futures Podcast: Disaster Prep in the Big City

    New Resilient Futures Podcast: Disaster Prep in the Big City

    What did you do during the COVID-19 social distancing era? Some of us learned to make sourdough, some of us perfected a viral whipped coffee, plenty of us did a whole lot of nothing- but this NYC subculture was busy taking notes. Anna Bounds, a Professor of Sociology at Queens College, has felt called to […]