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Join us for an upcoming defense: Oscar Villegas Gutierrez
Join us on Thursday, July 11 for IRIS graduate student Oscar Villegas Gutierrez’s thesis defense, “Comparative analysis of estimated longshore sediment transport rates with river and dredging fluxes in the Savannah Harbor.” Abstract: The determination of the relative contributions of inland and marine sources of sediment is essential for accurately…
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Q&A with IRIS Alum Anastasia Klosterman
Anastasia Klosterman was a graduate student under Dr. Brock Woodson, where she received her Master’s degree as part of the COBIA lab. Now, she’s working for the engineering firm Burns and McDonnell, helping to facilitate the implementation of electric vehicles in Georgia. Recently, she was selected for the second time…
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First Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellow Defends Thesis
We’re very excited to announce that Madlyn Carpenter will defend her Master’s thesis on Monday, July 8th. Madlyn is part of the Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship, an educational initiative formed by the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) at the University of Georgia and Ducks Unlimited. Graduate students in this…
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Progressing Practice at the WEDA Short Course
This past week, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) partnered with the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) to host a short course at the 2024 Dredging Summit & Expo in Tampa, Florida. The short course, Nature-based Solutions Engineering and Construction, was organized by UGA’s Todd Bridges, as well as Jeff…
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New publication finds positive relationships between biodiversity and green infrastructure in coastal Georgia
In a new study in Conservation Biology, researchers from UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, and East Carolina University explore the relationship between infrastructure development and coastal biodiversity to predict changes in biodiversity under different infrastructure scenarios. Natural or “green” infrastructure uses natural processes…
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COAST lab continues monitoring of Jekyll Island
If you were enjoying a beach day at Jekyll Island, GA this month, you might have seen some of our researchers out and about! The Coastal Ocean Analysis and Simulation Team (COAST) recently headed out to continue their quarterly survey to understand how the beach and dunes recover from storm events. The…
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IRIS affiliates attend the 2024 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology
Dr. Alysha Helmrich, Negin Shamsi (PhD Student), and Swagato Ankon (MS Student) attended the 2024 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology this June in Baltimore, Maryland to present their work on de-centralization or centralization in infrastructure for resilience, infrastructure interdependencies, and alternative data for flood monitoring, respectively. Helmrich also served…
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New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications
In a new paper published last month in AGU’s Water Resources Research, IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago-Collazo, Matt Bilskie and experts from Louisiana State University describe how they attempted to make compound flooding easier to understand. Instead of creating a large framework that accounts for any number of the small factors…
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IRIS Affiliate Marshall Shepherd to Serve as Panelist at NAS State of Science
On June 26th, 2024 in Washington D.C., the National Academy of Science will host the first State of Science address, where experts from around the country will address national science and policy in relation to economics, security, public health and well-being. We’re proud to announce that Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia…
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UGA Research Feature: For the love of salt marshes: Michelle Covi fights for coastal resiliency
In a new research profile by UGA Research News, Michelle Covi explains what led her to a lifelong career advocating for salt marshes. Covi is the coastal resilience liaison for Department of Defense under UGA’s Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. Covi is an incredibly active member of UGA’s campus,…
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Urban Morphology: Buildings, Streets, and the People In Between on the Resilient Futures Podcast
This month, our host Alysha Helmrich and her guest Lynn Abdouni are coming to you live from halfway across the world. Listen here. This pair of UGA engineering professors recently visited Doha, Qatar for a meeting about the Proactive Resilience Plan (PReP), a collaboration between UGA, Texas A&M, and the…
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UGA College of Engineering: Convergence and collaboration to achieve circularity
Originally published here by the University of Georgia College of Engineering. Research collaboration between the University of Georgia and University of Pittsburgh move to the next phase of their $5 million NSF Convergence Accelerator Project The linear consumption model of raw material extraction, production, use, and disposal dominates the global…
