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First Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellow Defends Thesis
We’re very excited to announce that Madlyn Carpenter will defend her Master’s thesis on Monday, July 8th. Madlyn is part of the Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship, an educational initiative formed by the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) at the University of Georgia and Ducks Unlimited. Graduate students in this program conduct practice-oriented and basic research on natural infrastructure methods…
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New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications
In a new paper published last month in AGU’s Water Resources Research, IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago-Collazo, Matt Bilskie and experts from Louisiana State University describe how they attempted to make compound flooding easier to understand. Instead of creating a large framework that accounts for any number of the small factors that influence flooding events, the authors put together an inundation…
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IRIS Affiliate Marshall Shepherd to Serve as Panelist at NAS State of Science
On June 26th, 2024 in Washington D.C., the National Academy of Science will host the first State of Science address, where experts from around the country will address national science and policy in relation to economics, security, public health and well-being. We’re proud to announce that Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and IRIS affiliate, will be part…
