Tag: engineering

  • Modeling levee setbacks to help communities along the Missouri River

    Modeling levee setbacks to help communities along the Missouri River

    Two counties along the Missouri River are taking action to help protect communities from flooding both up and down-river using levee setbacks. Nemaha County, Nebraska and Atchison County, Missouri, are working with the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, and Nebraska…

  • IRIS Faculty seeking Postdoctoral Associates

    IRIS Faculty seeking Postdoctoral Associates

    Researchers at IRIS are always looking to add talent and new ideas to their teams, but you can only go to graduate school so many times… So if you’ve finished your time in grad school but want to stick around in an academic environment doing amazing resilience research, check out these postdoctoral opportunities! Risk and…

  • Ram Mohan joins Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems

    Ram Mohan joins Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems

    ATHENS, GA– We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new Professor of Practice at IRIS, Dr. Ram Mohan! A fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Dr. Mohan will establish and lead the Sustainable Sediment Management Hub at IRIS. He joins us as a Senior Partner directing our collaborator Anchor QEA’s Nature…