Tag: Natural infrastructure

  • Natural Infrastructure Fellow Aurora Fowler on Freshwater, Field Work and Frogs

    Natural Infrastructure Fellow Aurora Fowler on Freshwater, Field Work and Frogs

    For Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellow Aurora Fowler, field work is a way to understand how ecosystems respond to change on the ground–and in the mud. During her six weeks living out of a camper along the lower Missouri River this summer, she investigated the froggy details of a region shaped by decades of levees, flood […]

  • Reflecting on Resilience: Q&A with Haley Selsor, IRIS Research Professional

    Reflecting on Resilience: Q&A with Haley Selsor, IRIS Research Professional

    We’re very proud to announce the recent graduation of PhD student Haley Selsor, who successfully defended her dissertation on flood risk and equity in the Athens area in early summer. To celebrate her successful defense, we sat down with her to learn about how she got to this point in her education, what surprised her […]

  • Announcing the Sustainable Sediment Management Short Course!

    Announcing the Sustainable Sediment Management Short Course!

    Countries and organizations around the world share the increasingly important challenge of sustainably managing sediment. Sediment systems support habitat for species and the structure and function of nature-based features that can address risks including shoreline erosion, flooding, and drought. Sediment also presents challenges to the operation of infrastructure systems such as reservoirs, ports, and navigation […]