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  • COAST lab continues monitoring of Jekyll Island

    COAST lab continues monitoring of Jekyll Island

    If you were enjoying a beach day at Jekyll Island, GA this month, you might have seen some of our researchers out and about! The Coastal Ocean Analysis and Simulation Team (COAST) recently headed out to continue their quarterly survey to understand how the beach and dunes recover from storm events. The group set out to work […]

  • IRIS affiliates attend the 2024 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology

    IRIS affiliates attend the 2024 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology

    Dr. Alysha Helmrich, Negin Shamsi (PhD Student), and Swagato Ankon (MS Student) attended the 2024 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology this June in Baltimore, Maryland to present their work on de-centralization or centralization in infrastructure for resilience, infrastructure interdependencies, and alternative data for flood monitoring, respectively. Helmrich also served as a thematic chair for […]

  • New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications

    New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications

    In a new paper published last month in AGU’s Water Resources Research, IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago-Collazo, Matt Bilskie and experts from Louisiana State University describe how they attempted to make compound flooding easier to understand. Instead of creating a large framework that accounts for any number of the small factors that influence flooding events, the […]