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World Wetlands Day: IRIS Affiliates working in climate-regulating powerhouse ecosystems
Today, February 2, 2024, is celebrating World Wetlands Day! Wetlands are an incredible environmental resource and provide diverse, invaluable benefits: temperature regulation, keystone species habitat, storm surge insulation, and massive amounts of carbon sequestration in soil and plant biomass. In honor of wetlands and the work IRIS affiliates do with this important ecosystems, we’re re-sharing […]
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New IRIS project: Scalable Watershed Resilience
IRIS affiliates Alysha Helmrich, Brian Bledsoe, Todd Bridges, and Scott Pippin were recently awarded funding for their Scalable Watershed Resilience project, which seeks to further the US Army Corps of Engineers’ ongoing efforts to strengthen the resilience of critical infrastructure systems in the Savannah River basin. About the project: To further the US Army Corps of Engineers’ ongoing efforts surrounding […]
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Seeds for the future: Hydrologist Todd Rasmussen to retire after three decades with UGA
By Cheryth France, River Basin Center After 31 years at UGA, hydrologist and dedicated educator Todd Rasmussen will retire from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources in December of 2023. To Todd Rasmussen, teaching has never been secondary to research. Many of his former students now hold positions in federal, state and private […]
