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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…
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UGA Today: People are altering decomposition rates in waterways
Dr. Krista Capps was recently featured by UGA Today for her work exploring decomposition rates in rivers around the world. In a recent paper, Capps and collaborators at UGA, Oakland University and Kent State University collected field data from over 150 researchers in 40 countries, putting together an evaluation that…
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CITRA Graduate Students Present at the 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Milwaukee, WI
Originally published here by the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications Graduate students Marco Garcia, Dennis Granados, and Stevens Charles presented their research at the 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, between May 19th and 22nd. The conference was held by the Environmental & Water Resources Institute…
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Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor
The University of Georgia Office of Research recently featured research surrounding water quality and supply in the Interstate 85 corridor, a region that stretches from Alabama to Virginia and crosses two of the South’s largest urban centers, Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. This work, a collaborative effort between the Institute…
