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What does resilience look like halfway around the world? Urban infrastructure researchers Alysha Helmrich and Lynn Abdouni explore resilience planning in Doha, Qatar
The concept of resilience can be slippery. Is it about longevity, flexibility, adaptivity? All of the above? Resilience has different definitions across disciplines, space, and time, and researchers at IRIS are figuring out the shape that resilience takes in a new project based over 7000 miles away. This summer, urban infrastructure researchers Alysha Helmrich and […]
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Restoring Mannington Meadows: Wetland researchers take a field trip to New Jersey
Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources professor Rhett Jackson and Ducks Unlimited Natural Infrastructure Fellow Nicholas Austin joined representatives from Ducks Unlimited, USACE, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), USFWS, Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conserve Wildlife NJ, and NOAA on Monday, July 22 to discuss plans […]
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Bringing resilience home: doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha begins project to install flood sensors in São Paulo, Brazil
How far would you move for a job you’re passionate about? Doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha moved fields–and continents–to study flooding, a major problem in her home state of São Paulo, Brazil. With her latest project, she hopes to bring the technology she’s working with back to where her career began. Tarcha first went to […]
