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Modeling levee setbacks to help communities along the Missouri River
Two counties along the Missouri River are taking action to help protect communities from flooding both up and down-river using levee setbacks. Nemaha County, Nebraska and Atchison County, Missouri, are working with the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, and Nebraska Public Power District to conduct…
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From concrete to migrating ducks: how recent Natural Infrastructure Fellow Stevens Charles found his way into the field
We spent time catching up with Stevens Charles, a recent graduate from the Natural Infrastructure Fellowship at the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems at the University of Georgia! Charles graduated this past November and is now a water resources engineer at Jacobs Engineering Solutions in Jacksonville, Florida. The Natural Infrastructure Fellowship is a funded Master’s degree program focusing on nature-based…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: A Framework for Intertwined Infrastructure Systems
Resilient Futures fans- Say hello to our first podcast episode of 2025! This month’s guest is someone close to home for our team- meet Alysha’s PhD student, Negin Shamsi! Negin gives an overview of her first first-author publication, titled “Interdependency classification: a framework for infrastructure resilience.” Shamsi’s research focus is infrastructure and urban resilience. Infrastructure managers collaborate across engineering, urban…
