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Bringing resilience home: doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha begins project to install flood sensors in São Paulo, Brazil
How far would you move for a job you’re passionate about? Doctoral student Luciana Iannone Tarcha moved fields–and continents–to study flooding, a major problem in her home state of São Paulo, Brazil. With her latest project, she hopes to bring the technology she’s working with back to where her career began. Tarcha first went to…
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Join us for an upcoming defense: Oscar Villegas Gutierrez
Join us on Thursday, July 11 for IRIS graduate student Oscar Villegas Gutierrez’s thesis defense, “Comparative analysis of estimated longshore sediment transport rates with river and dredging fluxes in the Savannah Harbor.” Abstract: The determination of the relative contributions of inland and marine sources of sediment is essential for accurately predicting and managing sedimentation in…
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River Basin Center hosts Confluence poster event highlighting graduate research in water resources
Thirty graduate students showcased research at a poster session on Friday, October 20, hosted by the UGA River Basin Center. The event, titled Confluence, was the first annual poster session of its kind and featured interdisciplinary work from all over campus that focused on freshwater science and policy. “We were encouraged by the diverse water…