Welcome to IRIS!

Welcome to IRIS! has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in August 2023. The social media accounts linked to from Welcome to IRIS! are: • Spotify • LinkedIn • Website Besides social media accounts, ugairis has populated their site with: • Flood detection for communities, by communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico • Prescribed burns significantly contribute to smoke pollution • The Sustainable Sediment Management Short Course • Featured in AJC: Can Sapelo Island beat climate change? • Featured by Pew Charitable Trusts: Proactive Peaches • Website Home • The Nature-based Solutions Short Course (Fall 2026) • Q&A with Incoming Grad Student Amber Lopez • New publication: Flood modeling, made simpler • Job Opportunities • Alumni Update: Natural Infrastructure Fellow Stevens Charles • Learn With Us • New paper featured on Resilient Futures Podcast: Interdependencies in Infrastructure • Resilient Futures Podcast • Faculty Spotlight: Christina H. Fuller • Support Our Work • Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns can help mitigate wildfire risks • Q&A with Jeb Byers: Mapping invasive species along global coastlines • River Basin Center: The End of Chevron Deference • IRIS News Home • Working With Nature Pays Off • Fellows in the Field: Hattie Greydanus • Out of the classroom, into the wild: Students gain field experiences in natural infrastructure • AJC Opinion: After Hurricane Helene, we must change extreme weather assessments • Understanding oppression in conservation science • Washington Post: Hundreds of uninsured homes in Helene's path • Putting America’s nature on the record • Job Opportunity: Administrative & Financial Specialist • Report: Resilience Planning for the State of Georgia • Facilitating Dam Removals With New Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool • Pew Charitable Trusts: How the University of Georgia Champions Nature's Ability to Reduce Climate Impacts • Clinic combines law and science to protect land • Innovating through Nature-Positive Engineering: How Can We Move Forward? • UGA Sustainable Development Goals Report • IRIS students at the beach: the Natural Infrastructure Field Course • Adam Orford's Thoughts from COP29 • Socially uneven adoptions of agricultural technologies in rural India • UGA signs first Intergovernmental Support Agreement to engineer a more resilient U.S. Navy • IRIS hosts a Young Scholar Program summer intern • Q&A with IRIS Alum Anastasia Klosterman • New publication: Biodiversity and coastal infrastructure • Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center holds listening session • UGA Research News: Michelle Covi fights for coastal resiliency • Presentations from the 2024 N-EWN Partner Symposium • Literature review: The state of NI implementation research • NI Fellows at DU National Convention • Charles Van Rees on periodical cicadas • Call for abstracts: International Conference on Shellfish Restoration • IRIS congratulates awardees during UGA Honors Week • Event: SE Defense Communities Resilience Workshop • Assistant Secretary of the Army Rachel Jacobson Visits IRIS • Resilient Futures Podcast: Climate Resilience in the Army • UGA Today: Defense Communities Resilience Program • Publication: Life cycles of natural infrastructure • Bridges appointed Chapter Lead on the first National Nature Assessment • Dr. Walter Silva-Araya visits IRIS faculty and students • NbS and NI Network Design Workshop • 23 IRIS Publications for 2023 • New publication: Creating a successful oyster reef breakwater • UGA Research: UGA seeding formation of broad research teams • UGA Seed Grants for Advancing Interdisciplinary Research • New RFutures Pod: NbS in the Global South