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Natural Infrastructure class presents final projects with real-world impact
It’s finals week at the University of Georgia, but this class capped off their coursework outside the classroom. In a poster session held on Reading Day, December 3, the Fundamentals of Natural Infrastructure course (ENVE 8310) held a poster session to dicsuss their projects on Paradise Cut, a $1 billion multi-benefit infrastructure project to manage and restore part of the…
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Ducks Unlimited Magazine features Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship
As floods, droughts, and storms intensify and aging infrastructure struggles to keep up, wetlands are increasingly in the spotlight—not just as habitat, but as vital systems that buffer storms, absorb floodwaters, and improve water quality across entire landscapes. The Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship, launched in 2022 by Ducks Unlimited and the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS), is a…
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Natural Infrastructure Fellow Aurora Fowler on Freshwater, Field Work and Frogs
For Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellow Aurora Fowler, field work is a way to understand how ecosystems respond to change on the ground–and in the mud. During her six weeks living out of a camper along the lower Missouri River this summer, she investigated the froggy details of a region shaped by decades of levees, flood control and shrinking wetlands. Fowler’s…
