Tag: institute for resilient infrastructure systems

  • Join us for the Sustainable Sediment Management Shortcourse!

    Join us for the Sustainable Sediment Management Shortcourse!

    UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) is pleased to announce a 3.5-day course on Sustainable Sediment Management in Athens, Georgia – June 3rd – 6th, 2025, led by IRIS professors Ram Mohan, Brian Bledsoe and Todd Bridges. Countries and organizations around the world share the increasingly important challenge of sustainably managing sediment.  Sediment systems support habitat for species and…

  • Natural Infrastructure Fellows in the field: Hattie Greydanus on beaver restoration and finding her way to natural infrastructure engineering

    Natural Infrastructure Fellows in the field: Hattie Greydanus on beaver restoration and finding her way to natural infrastructure engineering

    This past summer, Natural Infrastructure Fellow Hattie Greydanus stepped out of the classroom and into the field to gain hands-on experience implementing nature-based solutions.  As part of her internship requirement for the Natural Infrastructure Fellowship, a funded Master’s degree program courtesy of Ducks Unlimited and the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Greydanus traveled to Washington and Oregon. During her internship,…

  • Clinic combines law and science to protect land

    Clinic combines law and science to protect land

    Originally published here by the Odum School of Ecology. Written by Patrick Barry. When the idea of a clinic bringing ecology and law students together to serve as support for land conservation efforts was introduced, there wasn’t anything like it. Science and policy are inextricably linked, but there aren’t many other programs like UGA’s Land Conservation Clinic. “I think this particular…