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Bringing resilience home: doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha begins project to install flood sensors in São Paulo, Brazil
How far would you move for a job you’re passionate about? Doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha moved fields–and continents–to study flooding, a major problem in her home state of São Paulo, Brazil. With her latest project, she hopes to bring the technology she’s working with back to where her career began. Tarcha first went to […]
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Pictures from UGA Engineering Boot Camp: Teaching Hydrology… with Legos.
This summer, a group of incoming undergrads attended Discovering Engineering at UGA Boot Camp, taking classes and visiting labs across the UGA College of Engineering to get ready for their first year as Engineering Dawgs! The Compound Inundation Team for Resilience Applications (CITRA) lab, including Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo, graduate students Dennis Catalina Granados Duran, Luciana […]
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NOAA recommends collaborative oyster reef restoration project for funding
ATHENS, GA – A new project seeks to join Sapelo Island’s Saltwater Geechee community and public entities in a collaborative effort to reduce flooding through oyster reef restoration. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recommended the project, which is a collaboration between the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Save Our Legacy Ourself, […]
