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Seeds for the future: Hydrologist Todd Rasmussen to retire after three decades with UGA
By Cheryth France, River Basin Center After 31 years at UGA, hydrologist and dedicated educator Todd Rasmussen will retire from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources in December of 2023. To Todd Rasmussen, teaching has never been secondary to research. Many of his former students now hold positions in federal, state and private […]
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New IRIS in Focus: A Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Primer on Levee Setbacks
Recently, IRIS researchers Yee Huang and Matt Shudtz developed the Legal, Regulatory and Policy Primer on Levee Setbacks, a tool intended to help interested communities strategize how to implement a levee setback by helping planning branches in federal agencies, local levee districts and beyond understand the authorities, funding programs, permitting and legal requirements, and incentives […]
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Resilient Futures Podcast Episode 2 – Promoting Resilience: Interdisciplinary Expertise and Collaboration
On interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting resilience projects and disaster management strategies with Executive Director of ASCE, Tom Smith Just in time for the ASCE INSPIRE Conference, Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges are joined by Tom Smith, Executive Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, to discuss interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers, policy experts, and environmental managers. […]




