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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 […]
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Progressing Practice at the WEDA Short Course
This past week, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) partnered with the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) to host a short course at the 2024 Dredging Summit & Expo in Tampa, Florida. The short course, Nature-based Solutions Engineering and Construction, was organized by UGA’s Todd Bridges, as well as Jeff King from USACE’s Engineering With Nature® […]
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ERDC publication explores how natural infrastructure projects can prioritize human wellbeing
In a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, authors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) explore the psychological, physiological, medical, and social benefits to humans of exposure to nature, and how natural infrastructure (NI) projects can take these into account to continue to deliver those benefits. The author team […]
