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  • IRIS Hosts a Summer Young Scholar Program Student

    Meet our Young Scholar Program student, Samuel Cox! Sam spent six weeks this summer working with IRIS affiliates Dr. Félix Santiago-Collazo and Orlando Viloria-Marimón in the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) Lab, as part of the Summer Youth Program.  The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a paid five-week summer internship for high school students interested in environmental science. Students work 30 hours…

  • Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States

    Patterns, drivers, and a predictive model of dam removal cost in the United States

    In past decades, dams were installed across the United States to help control the flow of rivers and supply water or hydroelectric energy to communities. However, these aging structures pose public safety threats, as well as disrupting aquatic ecosystems and harming biodiversity in freshwater systems, all while costing expensive maintenance fees. This nexus of factors has led to a series…

  • IRIS students work in Big Muddy River, Illinois

    The CITRA (Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications) recently sent IRIS Natural Infrastructure Fellows Stevens Charles and Dennis Granados Duran to Big Muddy River, Illinois to gather data on flooding impoundments. The students prepared an awesome infographic, check it out below!