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Upcoming Guest Visit: Dr. Walter Silva-Araya, Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Institute
IRIS will welcome Dr. Walter Silva-Araya from the Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Institute (PRWREI) on Friday, March 15. Dr. Silva-Araya will meet with IRIS faculty, hear presentations from IRIS graduate students in the Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) lab, and tour ISTEM and Driftmier Engineering Center. Additionally, all are welcome to […]
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UGA partnership with Department of Defense gets $5 million boost
The Defense Communities Resilience Program (DCRP), a collaboration between the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has received $5 million in federal funding through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense.
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New publication: What it takes to create a successful oyster reef breakwater
Oyster reef breakwaters are a form of natural infrastructure that is gaining popularity in coastal regions, but there is still a shortage of data and literature on what environmental conditions best suit these structures. A team of IRIS researchers from the College of Engineering and the Odum School of Ecology are working to fill this […]
