Tag: natural infrastructure graduate fellowship

  • 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 […]

  • Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship Sponsors visit UGA

    Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellowship Sponsors visit UGA

    ATHENS, GA – In partnership with Ducks Unlimited (DU), the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) offers funded graduate fellowships for Master’s students interested in the science and engineering of Earth’s natural infrastructure to deliver water quality, habitat, flood protection, recreation and benefits using natural systems. These Natural Infrastructure Graduate Fellows, informally known as our […]

  • Saving Mannington Meadows: Natural Infrastructure Fellow paves the way for wetland restoration

    Saving Mannington Meadows: Natural Infrastructure Fellow paves the way for wetland restoration

    Graduate student Nicholas Austin has spent the last two years compiling a full profile of a once-freshwater wetland in New Jersey. His work is not only a thesis topic for his own Master’s degree, it’s blazing a path for future students to continue working towards the protection of this site.  Austin’s graduate research journey began […]