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CITRA PhD Candidates at the ASCE-EWRI Leadership & Council Weekend in Reston, VA
Our two PhD Candidates, Marco and Luciana, who are also chair and co-chair of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (ASCE-EWRI) Professional GA Chapter, attended the EWRI Leadership & Council Weekend in Reston, VA. The event allows ASCE-EWRI member leaders to gather, plan the coming year’s work, and celebrate the…
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Reading the dunes: What their changing shape tells us
To someone walking along the beach, coastal dunes can look like fixed hills of sand. In reality, they are dynamic landscapes, continually reshaped by wind, waves, and storms. A single storm can alter a dune in a matter of hours, but understanding what happens between storms and how the dune…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Can Artificial Intelligence Aid Natural Disaster Response?
Check out our latest Resilient Futures Podcast at your favorite place to listen! Disasters in the US are becoming more frequent, severe, and costly, and the emergency management organizations that handle them are struggling. Could artificial intelligence help? This month, host Alysha welcomes Ellen Futter, President of the Markle Foundation,…
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Busy as a Beaver: Developing Tools for Strategic Implementation of Beaver Dam Analogs
Beavers have long been known as a nuisance animal for their unsolicited tree removal and instinct to dam up water sources to create floodplains. However, those exact instincts can play an important role in shaping landscapes that are resilient to flooding, drought and fire: by building their dams, they raise…
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Apply Now: Public Art & Natural Infrastructure Design Challenge
The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) at the University of Georgia invites proposals for a public art installation. The goal of this project is to use art to enhance citizen science, leveraging art installation within a natural site to crowd-source environmental monitoring. Dr. Daniel Coleman, research associate, explained the…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Building Resilience in Medicine with Human Wellbeing
On this show, we usually focus on structural resilience- but what about the resilience of our personal wellbeing? This year, the University of Georgia opened our brand new School of Medicine, and some of the experts joining the School’s Office of Personalized Health and Well-being joined us to talk about…
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Creative, Collaborative, Community Solutions
Transforming the systems that manage flood risk is challenging even in the best circumstances. In places facing overlapping disasters, political conflict and fragmented institutions, it can be even more daunting. A team of researchers, government officials and nonprofit leaders is tackling that challenge by bringing together people and perspectives. The…
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Adam Milewski: UGA Game Changer
As head of UGA’s Department of Geology, Adam Milewski says people are often surprised that his work focuses on water. But Milewski, a hydrogeologist who studies the water found beneath earth’s surface, will be the first to tell you that geology includes more than rocks.
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Rosemond retires following three decades at UGA
Dr. Amy Rosemond officially retired as a professor at the Odum School of Ecology on July 1, and she has since been granted emeritus status. Throughout her career, she studied the effects of land use and climate change on the health of streams, uncovering important lessons about how excess nutrients…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: From Restaurant to Reef
This month on the Resilient Futures Podcast, we’re welcoming the team from Shell to Shore, an Athens-based oyster shell recycling initiative that works with restaurants across the state of Georgia to rebuild shorelines. Oysters-the same kind you slurp down as an appetizer at that restaurant downtown-have incredible potential for fighting…
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Saving Little Jetties: Shoreline Stabilization at a Major Naval Station
Situated between the city of Jacksonville, Florida, the mouth of the St. John’s River, and the Atlantic Ocean is the busy harbor of Naval Station Mayport. NS Mayport is one of the largest U.S. Navy bases in the Southeast. The Base neighbors the historic working waterfront community of Mayport Village,…
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Hiring Now: Working Lands Engineers for Southeastern Aquatic Connectivity
The University of Georgia (UGA) is seeking applications for Private Lands Engineers (Water Resources) to support implementation of the Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) Aquatics Connectivity Framework. This project is a collaboration between UGA and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) WLFW program. This position will serve as a key implementation lead and primary point of contact…
