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Join us for Holly Yaryan Hall’s Dissertation Defense!
Join us on November 1 at 2:30 for Holly Yaryan Hall’s dissertation defense. The topic of her dissertation is “Innovative Approaches to Urban Riverscape Planning and Design.” Email Gin Bacon Talati at vbtalati@uga.edu for access to the Zoom information! INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO URBAN RIVERSCAPE PLANNING AND DESIGN by HOLLY RUTH YARYAN HALL (Under the Direction of…
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IRIS Affiliate Jenna Jambeck awarded MacArthur Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Jenna Jambeck, a Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, for her being named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow! Jambeck was given this honor for her work investigating the scale of plastic pollution and galvanizing efforts to address plastic waste. Read the full story here.
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Sizing up marshes for flood prevention
Just how big do coastal marshes need to be to do their job as protectors of the coastline? IRIS researchers from the University of Georgia, Viyaktha Hithaishi Hewageegana, Matt Bilskie, Brock Woodson, and Brian Bledsoe investigated the matter by running simulations that tested how changes in marsh geometry impacted the storm surge and amount of…
