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Summary of the 2023 Georgia Resilience Roundtable
The University of Georgia Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (UGA IRIS), with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, held a Georgia Resilience Roundtable at the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 2023. IRIS and ARC gathered stakeholders from across Georgia (over 60 attendees) who are currently engaged or interested in issues […]
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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, […]
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PhD in Review: Laura Naslund reflects on her dissertation journey
I first interviewed Laura Naslund as the sun rose over a pond near Watkinsville, Georgia in June of 2022. I was an intern at the River Basin Center helping with Naslund’s field work, and we had just finished two hours of paddling a canoe to collect her homemade gas traps. These traps were upside-down funnels […]
