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On Our Watch

Mar 13, 2024

A new “On Our Watch” episode is out featuring the Institute’s Jessica Henkel, Deputy Director to the Chief Scientist/Director of the RESTORE Act Cente...

On Our Watch Episode 25: Beaux Jones of the Water Institute

Feb 28, 2024

Beaux Jones is the President and CEO of the Water Institute, an independent, non-profit applied research organization that works across disciplines to...

Residents say the Chauvin, Montegut, and Bourg communities are being uprooted

Feb 22, 2024

The Water Institute's Senior Research Scientist Scott Hemmerling has studied coastal population migration trends from the 1950s through to present cau...

Newly released Avian Data Monitoring Portal available to public and researchers

Feb 6, 2024

BATON ROUGE, La. (Jan. 11, 2024) – A newly released Avian Data Monitoring Portal brings together more than a decade of aerial survey photos along the ...

Louisiana marshes bury carbon in the muck. Could they help fight climate change?

Jan 10, 2024

Gathered on a strip of salt marsh bordering the Gulf of Mexico, Tim Carruthers and his team of scientists huddle around a patch of soil marked by prot...

HPC pioneers pave the way for a flood of arm supercomputers

Nov 28, 2023

“Certain Anaconda packages, there aren’t necessarily Arm targets for them yet,” Zach Cobell, senior computational scientist at The Water Institute and...

Climate impacts in the U.S. are ‘far-reaching and worsening,’ federal report finds

Nov 14, 2023

Renee Collini, director of the Gulf Center for Equitable Climate Resilience and a contributor to the report, said the country is behind where it needs...

NOLA Central City Library closure, Miss. River depth studies; interview with Sec. State candidate

Nov 8, 2023

Earlier this year, The Water Institute, a Baton Rouge-based research organization, partnered with more than a dozen operators of vessels on the Missis...

LSU and Tulane awarded $22 million for plan to save Lower Mississippi River Delta

Nov 1, 2023

Besides LSU and Tulane, the consortium includes six historically Black colleges and universities in Louisiana and Mississippi - Southern University of...

Louisiana offshore wind consortium chosen as US Tech Hub

Oct 23, 2023

The GLOW Propeller consortium brings together five universities (LSU, Southern, Tulane, UNO and Xavier), two community colleges (Delgado and Nunez), i...

Biden-Harris Administration awards $6.7 million for sea level rise and coastal resilience research

Oct 18, 2023

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is announcing $6.7 million in fiscal year 2023 funding that will be spent on 18 coastal resi...

Updates from The Water Institute: Oct. 4, 2023

Oct 4, 2023

The Water Institute is an independent, non-profit, applied research institution advancing science and developing integrated methods to solve complex e...