Our fearless leader Marccus D. Hendricks stopped by today, and we were so happy to see him at our last lab meeting of the semester!😄 It was great to hear about what everyone has been doing during spring 2023! We are already looking forward to next year.👏💧 #urbanplanning #stormwater

Go team!! @emmie_healey is presenting a poster at the UNC Water Institute Conference this week! This work is a collab between SIRJ (ARCH) and WOW Lab (SPH) in Sewage Overflow Events Water Emergency Team 🦠 💦 @UMD_MAPPD UMD Research #uncwaterandhealth

Stay tuned!! More info to come very soon 👀👀👀 #PhDfunding #UrbanPlanning #PublicHealth Water Emergency Team

Yesterday we had our SIRJ Lab meeting and we are so excited to share our students. This team is AWESOME! We are lucky to have them in our lab! Multiple countries and research represented in the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇺🇸 🇰🇷 #urbanplanning #stormwater #resilience #infrastructure

Super excited with this project 🤩🥳 If you are interested in hearing more about how we investigate Sewage Overflow Events in Maryland follow the Water Emergency Team (WET) Project in Water Emergency Team 💦🦠 Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @UMD_MAPPD #sewageoverflow #urbanplanning #publichealth

SIRJ went international! Our PhD candidate, Higor Brito, presented our work at the ABRHidro conference in Brazil! The biggest Water Conference in 🇧🇷 We are so excited with this collab between @UMD_MAPPD and UFCG! So much more to come! Well done, Higor! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

2024 started right to the SIRJ lab! Our manager & postdoc Dr. Priscila Alves is doing several meetings with collaborators in Brazil about our research projects. We can only say: great things are coming! Huge thanks to Prof. Iana Rufino Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino and her group for the collab!

Our director Marccus D. Hendricks received the Provost’s Do Good Institute Innovator Award! The award recognizes excellence by members of the UMD community who create social impact through education, programs, and research, both in and outside the classroom. We are so proud of you, Marccus!

Our lab manager & postdoc is talking about Water Emergency Team research project at the National Academies workshop today! RSVP to join! #flood #sewage #publichealth #infrastructure

Hot off the press 📠, our latest manuscript, “Slow Violence to Disasters: Exploring racialized topographies & contextualizing social vulnerability to flood & other environmental risks” led by our dual degree masters student, Asia Jones. Congrats Asia! 🎉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are happy to announce that our PhD candidate Minkyu Park is now Dr. Park! He was supervised by our director Marccus D. Hendricks and had Drs. Priscila Alves, Ariel Bierbaum, Clara Irazábal, and Laixiang Sun in his committee! Celebrate the new PhD with us! Congratulations, Minkyu! 🥳

The Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab and Water Emergency Team team in full effect at Univ. of Maryland #MarylandDay! 🌊🏠🚽🦠

Highlights of Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab’s research at Maryland Day! I’m so proud of this group- it’s amazing when we have such a team doing amazing research! Go team! This year we had a big table w/ IoT Project and Water Emergency Team (collab w/ SPH) Water Emergency Team #flooding #sewage #bacteria

📢 📣📢📣📢📣 WE ARE HIRING! We look for two highly motivated undergraduates from UMD to support in our #InternetofThings Research Project! 💧 This position is up to 10 hrs/week and begins in Fall 2024! Interested? Send your CV to us! Spread the word to your contacts 🗣️

The Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab is collaborating on our first international workshop w/ colleagues from UFCG in Campina Grande, BR, w/ Drs. Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino & Dr. Priscila Alves at the helm. Water challenges & inequality know no boundaries & we are meeting the moment. 🌊UMD Research @UMD_MAPPD

Following some updates and presentations on the project, now the games begin!ha Water scenarios, real human perceptions, adaptation strategies, and points for added water security! The different players come from academe, civil defense, local government, & beyond!

The lab had a great #fieldwork day with #IoTsensors installation & calibration 💦 Special thanks to our amazing team working in the #water even though it finally feels winter is here 💧Brian, Qianyao, Ben, Maria, Zoe, Vimu & Priscila 💧This project is funded by SustainableUMD