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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Climate Resilience in Atlanta
This month on the Resilient Futures Podcast, hosts Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges welcomed practitioners from Atlanta Regional Commission: Katherine Zitsch, Deputy COO, and Jon Philipsborn, Climate and Resilience Manager. Regional commissions work on many subject areas across a metropolitan area, from community development and transportation to water security and climate change. At ARC, resilience is a key defining factor…
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UGA hosts Local Wetlands Protection Workshop
The University of Georgia River Basin Center and University of Georgia School of Law Land Conservation Clinic co-hosted a Local Wetlands Protection Workshop on Tuesday, May 7 at the Delta Innovation Hub in Athens. The goal of the workshop was to explore background on wetlands and the federal wetland regulatory system, as well as how the legal landscape is evolving…
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Charles van Rees provides entomological expertise for N-EWN Nature At Work Series
IRIS affiliate and Odum School of Ecology research scientist Charles Van Rees recently provided expertise on periodical cicadas for the Network for Engineering With Nature’s “Nature At Work” series. Van Rees described the life cycle and population strategy of these interesting insects, which evade predator life cycles by emerging en masse every 13 or 17 years. 2024 is a special…
