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Three Successful Defenses: Congrats to our Master’s students!
We’d like to congratulate three IRIS Master’s students on their recent thesis defenses! Bring your hands together for: Hunter Kunzelmann Natural Infrastructure Fellow Informing Multi-Objective Wetland Design for Phosphorus Reduction and Waterbird Habitat in the Western Lake Erie Basin: A Case Study Abstract: Constructed wetlands provide valuable ecosystem services such as phosphorus (P) retention and
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Congratulations to the 2025 Research Awards Recipients!
Every year since 1979, the University of Georgia Research Foundation has spotlighted UGA faculty and graduate students for outstanding research and creative achievement. To learn more about the awards, visit the UGA Research website. We’re proud to see several familiar names on the list: Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award 2025 WenZhan Song, Georgia Power Mickey
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Water Resilience Shines at Biennial Georgia Water Resources Conference
ATHENS, GA – Interdisciplinary knowledge is a critical aspect of solving big environmental problems. That’s why, for the 2025 Georgia Water Resources Conference, we brought everyone together. We do mean everyone: ecologists, hydrologists, engineers, geoscientists, lawyers, anthropologists, consultants and certified fish enthusiasts. On March 25 and 26, the University of Georgia hosted the 2025 Georgia
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UGA hosts fourth annual Electric Mobility Summit
Originally published here by the University of Georgia College of Engineering. Written by and photos by Lillian Ballance. Event explores the current state of the e-mobility sector in Georgia and beyond More than 200 leaders from industry, government and education gathered in Athens for the fourth annual University of Georgia Electric Mobility Summit on March 13
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: We’re Going Local! Conserving Land and Communities
Emmanuel Stone was raised to love good food: his mother, a restaurant owner, inspired him to teach culinary arts, learn about agriculture, and emphasize the importance of whole foods. This led him to Athens Land Trust: an organization that simultaneously encourages conservation and community in Athens, GA where UGA is located. Stone serves as the
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We’re looking for a new project manager!
This is a highly responsible professional position providing critical project management (PM) for the UGA Research Institute (UGARI) and its project portfolios, including Global Security, Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Environment project portfolios. The position will be responsible for providing project management from project development and capture through execution for large, externally funded research programs and work closely
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Two good things at once: encouraging wetland design for phosphorus uptake and waterfowl habitat
Wetlands do a myriad of good things for humanity: protecting cities from storms by soaking up and slowing down the flow of floodwaters, helping filter out pollutants, and providing places to escape out into the natural world. However, when thinking about where and how to install wetlands, it can be difficult to keep these many
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Natural Infrastructure Fellows attend Ducks Unlimited National Engineering Meeting
As part of the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS)’ commitment to providing educational opportunities grounded in the real world, we partnered with Ducks Unlimited (DU) to create the Natural Infrastructure (NI) Fellowship. The NI Fellowship offers funded graduate fellowships for Masters students across the fields of engineering and environmental science. Real world learning means
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Community science and small sensors have the potential for big impact in San Juan, Puerto Rico
An upcoming NSF-funded research project will show that small, cheap sensors can have a big impact: gathering information to allow more accurate flood modeling. Small sensors, that is, and the hard work of many dedicated researchers and community members. The project is based in Puerto Rico’s capital of San Juan, an area that has historically
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Modeling levee setbacks to help communities along the Missouri River
Two counties along the Missouri River are taking action to help protect communities from flooding both up and down-river using levee setbacks. Nemaha County, Nebraska and Atchison County, Missouri, are working with the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, and Nebraska
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From concrete to migrating ducks: how recent Natural Infrastructure Fellow Stevens Charles found his way into the field
We spent time catching up with Stevens Charles, a recent graduate from the Natural Infrastructure Fellowship at the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems at the University of Georgia! Charles graduated this past November and is now a water resources engineer at Jacobs Engineering Solutions in Jacksonville, Florida. The Natural Infrastructure Fellowship is a funded Master’s
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: A Framework for Intertwined Infrastructure Systems
Resilient Futures fans- Say hello to our first podcast episode of 2025! This month’s guest is someone close to home for our team- meet Alysha’s PhD student, Negin Shamsi! Negin gives an overview of her first first-author publication, titled “Interdependency classification: a framework for infrastructure resilience.” Shamsi’s research focus is infrastructure and urban resilience. Infrastructure
