NEWS
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UGA Researchers create framework for understanding longevity and flood-risk mitigation of coastal marshes
Salt marshes are the quiet heroes of the coast, working behind the scenes to sequester carbon, buffer coastal towns from flooding and provide beautiful recreation spaces for tourists and locals alike. In a new grant through the U.S. IOOS Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed for $1.5 million, University of Georgia…
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Meet our IRIS Affiliates: Qiong Wang
Today we’d like to introduce one of our newer IRIS affiliates, Qiong Wang, an Assistant Professor in the College of Environment and Design, through a Q&A on her research. Qiong joined IRIS in the spring of 2025–and one year later, her team’s project, AI-Driven Decision Support Platform for Smart Disaster…
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IRIS affiliate faculty represented across four Presidential Seed Grants
We’d like to offer our congratulations to the IRIS affiliate faculty who were represented across four different Presidential Seed Grants.
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Students reimagine retired school buildings to revitalize Georgia small towns
What do you do with an empty building? These students want to give vacant spaces new life. A crew of engineering and landscape architecture students in last fall’s Sustainable Buildings Design course had a unique final project: designing new futures for disused school buildings. These adaptive re-use projects focused on…
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Heat poses additional risks post-hurricane
A new study from the University of Georgia suggests hurricanes may now pose an additional danger to people through heat exposure. Hurricanes threaten lives and cause significant economic damage. But their risks extend beyond just the storm itself. “People tend to think of rainfall, storm surge, high winds and tornadoes as…
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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS
This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban systems as SETS, positions SETS thinking for sensemaking, and identifies four modes of SETS to build requisite variety. To learn more, follow the links below! Links:Foundational reading on SETSMain perspective…
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IRIS Graduate Ada Chimsulukeme awarded WEDA Fellowship
Congratulations to one of our most recent grads, Ada Agbogu Chimzulukeme on being awarded a Western Dredging Association Fellowship! WEDA Fellows work to assist WEDA members and commissions in their goal of being the center of dredging excellence. Ada graduated with a master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering with emphasis in…
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UGA Researchers engineer safer road crossings for wildlife and people
Why did the turtle cross the road? Hint: it wasn’t just to get to the other side. John Maerz, Dennis and Sarah Carey Distinguished Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, can tell you exactly why turtles…
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Charting the path to a greener world: Past, present, and future for Nature-based design standards
In a new publication from ASCE Open, the multidisciplinary journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a team of experts from across academic, government, industry and nonprofit organizations are calling for a better future for natural infrastructure. Nature-Based Design Standards: Past, Present, and Future argues that the challenge isn’t…
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UGA teams up with Georgia Tech to restore state’s coastlines
Three University of Georgia research faculty are working with a team from Georgia Tech on a coastline restoration project that is supported by nearly $1 million from the National Coastal Resilience Fund, operated by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). This marks the second NFWF grant awarded to the…
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Studying the storm-stopping strength of mangroves
As Marco Garcia enters the third year of his PhD at UGA, he’s investigating how red mangrove trees protect coastal communities from hurricanes by putting their strength to the test. Mangrove trees are found along coastlines and wetlands in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. They grow in both…
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UGA’s Karahanna and Shepherd named Regents’ Professors
The professorship honors exemplary faculty with renowned scholarship, creative activity. University of Georgia faculty members Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd have earned the distinction of Regents’ Professors, the University System of Georgia’s highest professorial honor.
