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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...
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...
Dewberry selected to develop Va. coastal resilience plan
Mar 18, 2021Fairfax-based engineering and planning firm Dewberry has been awarded a $2.6 million contract by the state to develop Virginia’s first Coastal Resilie...
How much carbon can Louisiana's wetlands hold? New study aims to find out
Feb 22, 2021Louisiana's marshes are masters at capturing carbon from the air, locking it in the soil beneath the water's surface where it won't disturb the atmosp...
Baton Rouge, New Orleans area People in Business for Feb. 21, 2021
Feb 21, 2021Jason Curole has been named director of project management at The Water Institute of the Gulf. He was a data scientist and business leader for three y...
The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana requests proposals for $2.3 million in available funding
Feb 15, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 15, 2021) – The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) released a second Request for Proposals today and is en...
Nicholls to build $14.5 million coastal research center
Feb 9, 2021Nicholls State University in Thibodaux will begin preliminary work next year on a $14.5 million Coastal Center that will serve as a hub for research o...