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Notes from the field with graduate student Ada Chimzulukeme Agbogu
A search for challenging work drove me from my home country, Nigeria to the United States. I was admitted to the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Georgia as a masters student in 2020. A few months after I arrived at the department, I was placed in the Hunter Army Airfield project team. Since my bachelor’s degree program was…
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Insurance company AXA XL visits UGA in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration
With increasingly extreme weather, building resilient communities is a top priority across the nation. However, the factors that make a community or ecosystem resilient are often extremely complex, and require an interdisciplinary approach to understand and cultivate. Further, barriers like public perception of natural infrastructure, how city planners and practitioners value the co-benefits of natural infrastructure when planning, and policies…
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IRIS research on plastic waste streams featured in Packaging Europe
IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago Collazo and Jenna Jambeck’s research on plastic waste in the ocean was recently featured by the publication Packaging Europe, which is an organization dedicated to understanding the packaging needs of society and highlighting innovative ways to promote sustainability. The article specifically referred to a tool that Santiago Collazo and Jambeck are developing, which will help communities…
