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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 to explore those interests over…
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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 Friday, June 28, the National…
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Join us for an upcoming defense: Oscar Villegas Gutierrez
Join us on Thursday, July 11 for IRIS graduate student Oscar Villegas Gutierrez’s thesis defense, “Comparative analysis of estimated longshore sediment transport rates with river and dredging fluxes in the Savannah Harbor.” Abstract: The determination of the relative contributions of inland and marine sources of sediment is essential for accurately predicting and managing sedimentation in harbors (Mulholland and Olsen 1992).…
