Tag: coasts

  • Student project tackles coastal flooding on Sapelo Island

    Student project tackles coastal flooding on Sapelo Island

    Originally published here by the UGA College of Engineering. Written by Hayley Clement. UGA Emergency Preparedness, Marine Institute partner with College of Engineering for hands-on learning Students in the College of Engineering collaborated with the UGA Office of Emergency Preparedness and Insurance & Claims Management (OEP/ICM) and the UGA Marine Institute (UGAMI) on Sapelo Island on […]

  • IRIS hosts a Young Scholar Program student for the summer

    IRIS hosts a Young Scholar Program student for the summer

    Meet one of our summer interns, Miller Cooper! Cooper, a rising junior at Athens Academy, joined Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo’s Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) Lab this summer for the Young Scholars Program (YSP) at UGA. Cooper has always enjoyed learning about STEM in school, and applied for the internship as a productive way […]

  • IRIS affiliates file comments on USACE proposed Agency Specific Procedures

    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 filed comments on the proposal, […]