Tag: resilience

  • IRIS Faculty seeking Postdoctoral Associates

    IRIS Faculty seeking Postdoctoral Associates

    Researchers at IRIS are always looking to add talent and new ideas to their teams, but you can only go to graduate school so many times… So if you’ve finished your time in grad school but want to stick around in an academic environment doing amazing resilience research, check out these postdoctoral opportunities! Risk and […]

  • We’re hiring Resilience Engineers!

    We’re hiring Resilience Engineers!

    IRIS is all about two things: creating resilient systems (of course) and bringing great people together. We’re seeking innovative, talented, collaborative individuals to add to our team- specifically, Resilience Engineers to work on research and implementation projects in the field of natural infrastructure and nature-based solutions. You’ll join an interdisciplinary team of engineers, hydrologists, ecologists, […]

  • Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns can help mitigate wildfire risks

    Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns can help mitigate wildfire risks

    A new study in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management indicates that prescribed burns could play a key role in mitigating risks of wildfire like those still active in Los Angeles, California. This photo of the Palisades Fire was taken from the Playa Vista neighborhood in western Los Angeles Jan. 7. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) […]