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REACT4EJ launches website for supporting grassroots environmental justice movements
The EPA Region 4 Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC), known as REACT4EJ, has launched a website providing resources to environmental justice movements. EJ TCTACs are institutions and organizations that aim to support existing and new community projects through guidance and training on grant writing, project management, government engagement and…
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IRIS attends the first N-EWN Partner Symposium
This past week, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems was thrilled to participate in the first Network for Engineering With Nature Partner Symposium, which served as an opportunity for the network’s partners to come together in person. As a founding partner of the Network, IRIS has been part of N-EWN…
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Bledsoe Selected to Write Chapter for the First National Nature Assessment
The U.S. Global Change Research Program is pleased to announce the selection of authors for the first-ever National Nature Assessment (NNA1). The diverse team that will number over 150 experts was selected by the 11 NNA1 chapter leads in consultation with federal leadership, based in part on a public call…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Climate Resilience in Atlanta
This month on the Resilient Futures Podcast, hosts Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges welcomed practitioners from Atlanta Regional Commission: Katherine Zitsch, Deputy COO, and Jon Philipsborn, Climate and Resilience Manager. Regional commissions work on many subject areas across a metropolitan area, from community development and transportation to water security and…
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UGA hosts Local Wetlands Protection Workshop
The University of Georgia River Basin Center and University of Georgia School of Law Land Conservation Clinic co-hosted a Local Wetlands Protection Workshop on Tuesday, May 7 at the Delta Innovation Hub in Athens. The goal of the workshop was to explore background on wetlands and the federal wetland regulatory…
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Charles van Rees provides entomological expertise for N-EWN Nature At Work Series
IRIS affiliate and Odum School of Ecology research scientist Charles Van Rees recently provided expertise on periodical cicadas for the Network for Engineering With Nature’s “Nature At Work” series. Van Rees described the life cycle and population strategy of these interesting insects, which evade predator life cycles by emerging en…
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ERDC publication explores how natural infrastructure projects can prioritize human wellbeing
In a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, authors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) explore the psychological, physiological, medical, and social benefits to humans of exposure to nature, and how natural infrastructure (NI) projects can take these into account to continue to deliver…
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CITRA Student Austin Ramirez at the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium
Originally published here by the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications. This past March, CITRA team member, Austin Ramirez Pineda, and the University of Georgia’s American Society of Civil Engineering chapter attended the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium hosted by the University of Central Florida. 19 universities such as Kennesaw…
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Summary of the 2023 Georgia Resilience Roundtable
The University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (UGA IRIS), with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, held a Georgia Resilience Roundtable at the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 2023. IRIS and ARC gathered stakeholders from across Georgia (over 60 attendees) who are currently…
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Duke University hosts panel on sustainable infrastructure
At a recent symposium hosted by Duke University, experts from across academic, governance and NGO sectors exchanged ideas about accelerating sustainable infrastructure development, including our own Dr. Todd Bridges. “I’d like to think that we’re entering a renaissance period in civil engineering with the opportunities that are before us,” said…
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IRIS affiliates file comments on USACE proposed Agency Specific Procedures
IRIS affiliates are contributing their expertise as the US Army Corps of Engineers updates its policies for evaluating potential new civil works projects. The Corps recently proposed new Agency Specific Procedures (ASPs) to implement the Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines (PR&G). IRIS Director Brian Bledsoe, along with law and policy experts Yee Huang and Matthew Shudtz, recently…
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PhD in Review: Laura Naslund reflects on her dissertation journey
I first interviewed Laura Naslund as the sun rose over a pond near Watkinsville, Georgia in June of 2022. I was an intern at the River Basin Center helping with Naslund’s field work, and we had just finished two hours of paddling a canoe to collect her homemade gas traps.…
