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Climate change-fueled flooding could hit Louisiana the hardest. Can it be stopped?
May 31, 2021The report's findings are supported by Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan, a planned 50-year, $50 billion effort to study the threats of climate change, ...
Waze for Water
May 27, 2021For captains and their crews, moving goods can be a white-knuckle experience. Heavy with goods, boats must dodge each other through fast-moving and sh...
Institute and UNO awarded National Science Foundation grant to support graduate student study in the Netherlands
May 12, 2021NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 12, 2021) - A National Science Foundation grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf and the University of New Orleans will suppor...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers selects Water Institute to analyze policies and procedures to better quantify environmental and social benefits for nature-based solutions
Apr 20, 2021The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institute of the Gulf to analyze how the fe...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers selects Water Institute to analyze policies and procedures to better quantify environmental and social benefits for nature-based solutions
Apr 14, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (April 14, 2021) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institu...
Water Institute will work with corps to amend cost-benefit analyses process
Apr 14, 2021The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected The Water Institute of the Gulf to analyze how the federal benefit-cost analysis, used to select project...
Bridges-2 Begins Production Operations
Apr 8, 2021The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved PSC’s new Bridges-2 system for production operations. PSC offers time on the NSF-funded, advanced r...
New paper shows benefits of Louisiana coastal restoration to soil carbon sequestration
Apr 5, 2021Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to store carbon in the soil over a per...
Water Institute will help develop Virginia’s coastal master plan
Mar 29, 2021Baton Rouge’s Water Institute of the Gulf has landed a contract with the Commonwealth of Virginia to develop the state’s first coastal resilience mast...
Louisiana: The state we're in
Mar 26, 2021There’s concern that the source for the drinking water serving Baton Rouge, along with the northern 10 parishes of Southeastern, LA., is at risk becau...
Institute board member Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou receives 2021 lifetime achievement award
Mar 23, 2021Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine, has been awarded the 2021 Community S...
Virginia inks contract for state coastal flooding plan, expected to be done before Northam leaves office
Mar 19, 2021The engineering firm that oversaw Virginia Beach’s $3.8 million sea level rise and flooding study will take a leading role in developing Virginia’s Co...