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Marshall Shepherd provides expertise on urban rainfall patterns research, USA Today
Originally published here by USA Today. Written by Doyle Rice. Cities make it rain, study says Sure, we’ve all heard of the urban heat island effect, where cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. Now scientists have discovered a similar urban “rain island effect,” where cities appear to get more rainfall then the hinterlands around […]
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Todd Bridges to discuss resilience and sustainability at Dalton State College
Join Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful (KDWB) on Thursday, September 12 for a talk by Dr. Todd Bridges, Professor of Practice at UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and founder of USACE’s Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program. The talk, titled “Building Resilience for the People and the Planet,” will discuss how innovative nature-based solutions can directly benefit […]
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New episode of the Resilient Futures Podcast: Creating Space for Nature-based Solutions featuring Director Brian Bledsoe
The newest episode of the Resilient Futures Podcast features our Director, Dr. Brian Bledsoe, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Georgia and farmer, guitar player, and dad (not in that order.) Hosts Alysha Helmrich and Todd Bridges join Bledsoe in reviewing his lifelong commitment to research and interdisciplinary collaboration. His career […]
