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Make a Dam Decision: Facilitating Dam Removals Through New Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool
Originally published here by the Network for Engineering With Nature. Dams across the United States are aging, with the cost to repair or remove all known deficient non-federal dams estimated at over $1.5 billion. Even for functioning dams, there may still be a number of reasons to remove them, from emissions reduction to flood risk […]
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Learn about compound flooding with Weather Geeks
What is compound flooding and what does it have to do with Hurricane Helene? Learn all about it on the recent Weather Geeks podcast, where IRIS affiliate Matt Bilskie, whose research centers on modeling flood events on the coast, was interviewed about his work by Marshall Shepherd, the IRIS Climate and Outreach Director and Georgia […]
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Todd Bridges invited to speak to President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council
The scope and increasing scale of disasters is a serious national challenge. Leaders on the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) have been charged with advising the White House on how to reduce risk and improve the security and resilience of our nation’s infrastructure and communities. The NIAC recently invited Dr. Todd Bridges, Professor of […]
