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New IRIS project: Scalable Watershed Resilience
IRIS affiliates Alysha Helmrich, Brian Bledsoe, Todd Bridges, and Scott Pippin were recently awarded funding for their Scalable Watershed Resilience project, which seeks to further the US Army Corps of Engineers’ ongoing efforts to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure systems in the Savannah River basin. About the project: To further the US Army Corps of Engineers’ ongoing efforts surrounding the resilience of critical infrastructure…
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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 sectors, making a difference in…
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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 and obstacles to implementing a…
