Tag: Natural infrastructure

  • NOAA recommends collaborative oyster reef restoration project for funding 

    NOAA recommends collaborative oyster reef restoration project for funding 

    ATHENS, GA – A new project seeks to join Sapelo Island’s Saltwater Geechee community and public entities in a collaborative effort to reduce flooding through oyster reef restoration. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association recommended the project, which is a collaboration between the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Save Our Legacy Ourself, […]

  • IRIS hosts a Young Scholar Program student for the summer

    IRIS hosts a Young Scholar Program student for the summer

    Meet one of our summer interns, Miller Cooper! Cooper, a rising junior at Athens Academy, joined Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo’s Compound Inundation Team for Resilient Applications (CITRA) Lab this summer for the Young Scholars Program (YSP) at UGA. Cooper has always enjoyed learning about STEM in school, and applied for the internship as a productive way […]

  • Marshall Shepherd provides expertise on changing hurricane seasons- and what they mean for communities.

    Marshall Shepherd provides expertise on changing hurricane seasons- and what they mean for communities.

    In a special edition of the Network for Engineering With Nature’s (N-EWN) Nature at Work series, Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA Geography provided expertise on hurricanes and the impact of a changing hurricane season on coastal communities. Shepherd is a Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences and an accomplished meteorologist. On […]