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New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS
This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban systems as SETS, positions SETS thinking for sensemaking, and identifies four modes of SETS to build requisite variety. To learn more, follow the links below! Links:Foundational reading on SETSMain perspective discussed regarding SETS and sensemakingPaper: SETS in Phoenix, AZ Haiku:City…
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IRIS Graduate Ada Chimsulukeme awarded WEDA Fellowship
Congratulations to one of our most recent grads, Ada Agbogu Chimzulukeme on being awarded a Western Dredging Association Fellowship! WEDA Fellows work to assist WEDA members and commissions in their goal of being the center of dredging excellence. Ada graduated with a master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering with emphasis in environment and water systems in December 2025. She holds a…
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Charting the path to a greener world: Past, present, and future for Nature-based design standards
In a new publication from ASCE Open, the multidisciplinary journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a team of experts from across academic, government, industry and nonprofit organizations are calling for a better future for natural infrastructure. Nature-Based Design Standards: Past, Present, and Future argues that the challenge isn’t knowledge–it’s organization. While teams around the world are researching nature-based…
