Tag: institute for resilient infrastructure systems

  • Capps named SFS vice president for 2027

    Capps named SFS vice president for 2027

    Krista Capps, the associate director of the River Basin Center and an associate professor at Odum School of Ecology, was named the vice president of the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) at the group’s 2026 annual meeting in May in Spokane, Washington.

  • New Resilient Futures Podcast: Let it Burn

    New Resilient Futures Podcast: Let it Burn

    After a decade working across the Southeast, Jordan Youngmann is seeing his hometown in upstate New York through fresh eyes- and his work is just warming up. Pre-European colonization, forests looked very different: while many people think of this world as a “pristine” landscape, forest systems across North American were highly regulated by Indigenous groups. Today, these systems are largely…

  • Out of the classroom, into the wild: Students gain field experiences in natural infrastructure

    Out of the classroom, into the wild: Students gain field experiences in natural infrastructure

    It’s not every day that your class syllabus recommends muck boots. But for students enrolled in ENVE 8330: Field Experiences in Natural Infrastructure, the dress code is part of the lesson. Over a long weekend in March, graduate students traded lecture halls for salt marshes, barrier islands and historic coastal sites, immersing themselves in the real-world ways communities manage changing…