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What you need to know about Charleston’s $2 billion storm surge project
Jan 22, 2021Perimeter defense proposals for the peninsula figure prominently in the findings that came from a series of meetings and workshops in 2019 called Dutc...
Could Floating Cities Be a Haven as Coastlines Submerge?
Dec 23, 2020Lesser known but gaining notoriety are the floating homes developed over the last two decades around Amsterdam, one of the lowest-lying cities in the ...
Escape plan for rising seas: Floating cities (or a barge)
Dec 23, 2020By century's end, tens of millions of U.S. coastal property owners will face a decision embodied in the popular exhortation, "Move it or lose it." But...
Save the date: RFP 2 The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana
Dec 18, 2020BATON ROUGE, La. (Dec. 18, 2020) – The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) will be releasing a second Request for Proposals in ear...
Editorial: Charleston’s issues with flooding are getting more real
Dec 3, 2020Charleston experienced three events last week that made it quite clear that our challenge of living with water is getting more real. Two were obvious:...
15 openings and upgrades that changed Baton Rouge
Nov 1, 2020The urgency of Louisiana’s diminishing wetlands was just part of the impetus behind the Water Campus, a multimillion-dollar project now positioning Ba...
The Water Institute of the Gulf runs compute-heavy storm surge and wave simulations on AWS
Sep 23, 2020The Water Institute of the Gulf (Water Institute) runs its storm surge and wave analysis models on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—a task that sometimes req...
Charleston prepares the ground for intensive flood research in July
May 3, 2020After two days exchanging data and discussing flooding around one of the nation’s lowest-lying cities, members of Charleston’s Dutch Dialogues plannin...
Water's Edge
Apr 2, 2019The Water's Edge: A "Nightly Films" series on the land loss challenges and solutions on Louisiana's coast. Watch the entire series here....
Virginia as the "Silicon Valley" of sea level rise? It could happen.
Mar 21, 2019Can Virginia make money off sea level rise? The very idea sounds backwards — usually frequent flooding from bigger and more destructive storms is cost...
Charleston homeowners address flooding concerns at panel discussion
Mar 12, 2019CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - On Tuesday, a group of homeowners in Charleston came together to address flooding and ask officials what’s being done about it...
The Water Institute of the Gulf welcomes Hugh Roberts as the new Vice President for Engineering
Feb 4, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 4, 2018) – Hugh Roberts, who spent years with Arcadis working on numerical modeling and resilience issues, will be joining The ...