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UGA Impact: Outsmarting Disaster with Natural Infrastructure
UGA researchers combine natural and man-made infrastructure to help communities be more resilient. To prepare a community for a flood, engineers design efficient, protective systems to divert and control water. But should that infrastructure take the form of concrete drainage systems, dams, and levees? Or swamps, reefs, and streams?
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Van Rees illuminates path toward a more biodiverse future
Polls show the public widely supports protecting biodiversity, but how we get there—or even what a biodiverse future looks like—isn’t as clear. A new paper led by Odum School of Ecology assistant professor Charles van Rees is helping to chart a path to restoring and saving biodiversity, much like how carbon credits quantify success in […]
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IRIS Year in Review: 25 Papers for 2025
2025 has been an eventful year for IRIS! As part of our annual, end-of-year tradition we’ve collected 25 papers from across 2025 (ordered by publication month) that showcase our unique interdisciplinary focus. The Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems was chartered by the University of Georgia in late 2016. If you’d like to join us in […]
