Tag: resilience

  • New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications

    New publication simplifies compound flood modeling for resilience applications

    In a new paper published last month in AGU’s Water Resources Research, IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago-Collazo, Matt Bilskie and experts from Louisiana State University describe how they attempted to make compound flooding easier to understand. Instead of creating a large framework that accounts for any number of the small factors that influence flooding events, the […]

  • UGA Research Feature: For the love of salt marshes: Michelle Covi fights for coastal resiliency

    UGA Research Feature: For the love of salt marshes: Michelle Covi fights for coastal resiliency

    In a new research profile by UGA Research News, Michelle Covi explains what led her to a lifelong career advocating for salt marshes. Covi is the coastal resilience liaison for Department of Defense under UGA’s Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. Covi is an incredibly active member of UGA’s campus, and spoke about her mission […]

  • Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor

    Managing the ebb & flow of the I-85 corridor

    The University of Georgia Office of Research recently featured research surrounding water quality and supply in the Interstate 85 corridor, a region that stretches from Alabama to Virginia and crosses two of the South’s largest urban centers, Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. This work, a collaborative effort between the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) […]