Check out the newest episodes from our partners’ podcasts!

The Engineering With Nature Podcast - 3D Printing Nature-Inspired Infrastructure: The Future is Upon Us!

Resilient Futures Podcast (Formerly Future Cities) - Expect the Unexpected: Resilience and Life Advice from the Late Bronze Age

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IRIS affiliates are contributing their engineering and policy expertise as the US Army Corps of Engineers updates policies for evaluating potential new civil works projects. 👷‍♂️📝

Read more here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/25/iri…

Meet Laura Naslund: dedicated field researcher, ecologist-turned-biogeochemist/infrastructure expert, and powerhouse graduate student. Fresh off defending her doctoral dissertation, we sat down with Naslund to look back on her PhD journey. 

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A new sustainability and resilience mindset is necessary to future-proof infrastructure from #ClimateChange 's impacts and shifting societal expectations, experts said during a Duke University symposium in March.

Read highlights from the discussion: nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/articles/civil…

Last Friday, April 19, River Basin Center hosted a Climate and Water Research Slam with lightning talks from 30 faculty and student researchers on topics related to water and climate change.

Read more here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/23/hur…

It’s Earth Day, so we’d like to talk about some of our favorite environmental engineers: Mangroves!

(Human environmental engineers, don't get too salty about it!)

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Happy Earth Day! 🌎

In the most recent episode of the Resilient Futures Podcast, USACE social scientist Dr. Ben Trump gave an explanation of resilience that we think makes a perfect Earth Day message.

Learn more here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/16/new…

A new report from IRIS and U.S. Army ERDC explores how coastal infrastructure projects can embrace and benefit biodiversity. The group of authors includes engineers, ecologists and landscape designers.

Learn more and access the full report here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/19/new…

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Every month, we ask guests to write a haiku or short poem to describe the big picture of their episode. Check out this month's ✨excellent✨ submissions, and don't forget to listen to the episode!

Congratulations to ✨Dr.✨ Cydney Seigerman of Anthropology at UGA on a successful defense last week!

Seigerman studies the sociopolitical and ecological aspects of water security.

📸 Left to right: Susana Ferreira, Don Nelson, Brian Bledsoe, Cydney Seigerman, Nate Nibbelink.

Join Odum School of Ecology this Wednesday for this talk from IRIS affiliate and River Basin Center Director of Science Seth Wenger!

See you for our next Knowledge Series this Thursday! 🔭

Congrats to UGA Engineering’s 2024 Celebration of Excellence awardees!

Brian Bledsoe - Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Becca Stanley - Excellence in Grad Student Teaching
Kate Winters - Academic Excellence, UGA Presidential Award of Excellence
Jennifer Martin - 25 Years at UGA

Did you guys see something?

The International Conference on Shellfish Restoration, to be held this September at the Jekyll Island Convention Center, is calling for abstracts on all things bivalves, and we couldn't let this news be... eclipsed.

Read more: iris.uga.edu/2024/03/29/cal…

Turn around, bright eyes…

Every now and then, our team gets outside- today we headed out to experience part of the eclipse! If you’re planning to snag a peek, don’t forget your glasses, folks 😎

📸 Alejandra Gomez

Join colleagues from Odum School of Ecology for Laura Naslund's dissertation defense next week, “Impacts of dams and their removal on carbon emissions and storage.”

This event will be held this Friday, April 12 at 9:00am in person (CEID Conference Room) and via Zoom.

Check out new episodes from two of our fave podcasts!

Engineering With Nature Podcast: Atlas 3 Launch Coming Soon – 58 Inspiring NBS Projects

Resilient Futures Podcast (Formerly Future Cities): produced by Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems: Special Guest Rachel Jacobson on Climate Resiliency in the Army and Beyond

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IRIS is proud to recognize our faculty and student affiliates who have been honored during UGA Honors Week:

Jeb Byers, Odum School of Ecology
Katie Foster and Cydney Seigerman, Anthropology at UGA
Kate Winters, UGA Engineering

Learn more here: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/04/uga…

Who says field trips stop after high school?

Last week, IRIS grad students studying coastal resilience to Jekyll Island, GA, to meet with conservation researchers and practitioners.

Read more: iris.uga.edu/2024/04/03/gra…

Félix Santiago-Collazo and Susana Ferreira are embarking on a new project exploring the many compound risks of coastal flooding.

“Sometimes, the most challenging part is not solving a complex problem... It is implementing a practical solution.”

Read: bit.ly/4aybwdK