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What you need to know about Charleston’s $2 billion storm surge project

Jan 22, 2021

Perimeter 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, 2020

Lesser 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, 2020

By 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, 2020

BATON 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, 2020

Charleston 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, 2020

The 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, 2020

The 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, 2020

After 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, 2019

The 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, 2019

Can 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, 2019

CHARLESTON, 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, 2019

BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 4, 2018) – Hugh Roberts, who spent years with Arcadis working on numerical modeling and resilience issues, will be joining The ...