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School at the beach: IRIS graduate students flex their problem solving skills during Natural Infrastructure Field Course
IRIS graduate students flex their problem solving skills during Natural Infrastructure Field Course This past week, twelve Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) graduate students ditched the classroom for the beach – where they attended a natural infrastructure field course on Skidaway Island and Isle of Hope to flex their…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast! Greening the Cul-de-sac: Encouraging Nature-Positive Residential Development
Big, leafy shade trees, burbling creeks, and access to recreation in beautiful natural areas: most people intuitively know that these kinds of natural amenities create pleasant communities, and houses located close to these kinds of resources tend to sell for more than those without. What folks often aren’t thinking about…
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Director Brian Bledsoe featured by Pew Trusts: How the University of Georgia Champions Nature’s Ability to Reduce Climate Impacts
Originally published here by the Pew Charitable Trusts. When most people hear “infrastructure,” they picture roads, buildings, and other human-made structures. But experts at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) also use the term to describe natural features that offer direct and indirect benefits to communities…
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Adaptation at a crossroads: Socially uneven adoptions of agricultural technologies in rural India
Communities around the world are beginning to feel the impacts of climate change, including increasing temperatures, sea level rise, and intensifying storms. Many are taking action through lifestyle changes and new technologies that can help mitigate environmental issues on small scales. However, for these individual-level changes to make an impact,…
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Shepherd receives National Academies award for science communications
J. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Geography in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was the top prize winner in the National Academies’ Research Scientist: Later Career category of its Schmidt Awards. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently revealed…
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Save the Date: IRIS to host AEES 2025
The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems will host the next annual meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society next spring in Athens, Georgia. The event, which will be the 25th anniversary of this meeting, will be returning to Athens after the inaugural conference was first held there in 2001. Mark…
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IRIS Students Shine at River Basin Center’s Confluence Poster Contest
On Friday, October 18, the UGA River Basin Center hosted their second annual water science & policy poster contest. The symposium, titled “Confluence,” brought together graduate students and interested faculty from all walks– or swims– of life: ecologists, engineers, landscape designers, anthropologists and more were able to explore and engage…
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Fear and hope at the heart of new IRIS publication: Innovating Through Nature-Positive Engineering
For centuries, Western civilization has engineered infrastructure that contains and controls nature. In a recent article, IRIS researchers argue that this dated perspective has gotten us into trouble. In order to survive and hopefully thrive through the many challenges modern society faces, we must work with nature. The article, “Innovating…
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Two engineering students to defend masters theses next week!
Next week is an exciting one here at IRIS, with two students defending their Masters theses! Check them out: ⎯ “Redefining the Bounds of approximations to the Sant-Venant Equations for Overland and Riverine Flows in Compound Flood Simulations” Logan Bayer, MS candidate in Engineering, Emphasis in Environmental Engineering Date: Wednesday,…
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Students: don’t miss out on upcoming scholarship opportunity!
IRIS partner Anchor QEA’s 2024 scholarship is now accepting applicants! Eligible students can apply through November 20, 2024, and recipients will be announced in January 2025. Our scholarship awards funding to individuals who fit the following criteria: Since 1999, Anchor has QEA presented more than 170 scholarships to graduate students…
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Expressing condolences to Sapelo Island community after dock collapse
The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the Sapelo Island community following the collapse of a ferry dock gangway that led to 7 deaths and severe injuries. The collapse happened while crowds were gathered to celebrate the island’s Gullah-Geechee community. The event, Cultural…
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Monika Giri selected as a Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science fellow
Monika Giri, PhD student with UGA’s Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a Community Science Fellow with the Thriving Earth Exchange, an initiative of the American Geophysical Union that connects fellows and scientists with communities across the United States, Mexico, and South America to co-develop projects tailored to local priorities.…
