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Research Highlight: Flood Resilience for the City of Tybee Island
Residents along Georgia’s coast are familiar with flooding, but the recent rise in sea levels means those floods have grown more frequent due to rising high tides, even on sunny days without rain. Researchers from the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) and River Basin Center (RBC) are working with the City…
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A win-win solution for Fort Benning
Through his work at the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government, IRIS affiliate Scott Pippin is helping to meld military mission with support for the surrounding community on the military site Fort Benning. “The military has its mission and its goals, and those are the drivers behind this,” Pippin is quoted as saying in a…
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Research Highlight: IRIS Affiliate Sonny Kim develops a new system to monitor carbon in salt marshes
Article by Mike Wooten, first published on News, College of Engineering Coastal salt marshes play an oversized role in regulating the planet’s climate thanks to their ability absorb massive amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While they occupy less than 2% of the ocean surface, scientists estimate coastal marshes and wetlands…
