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Efforts underway to restore barrier islands vital to protecting Louisiana during hurricanes
Jul 25, 2024The Chandeleur Islands serve as a "first line of defense" for Louisiana against hurricanes, but the ancient shoals are vanishing. FOX Weather's Robert...
Chandeleur Islands to be submerged in 20 years if restoration efforts fall short, experts say
Jul 9, 2024Launching from a harbor in Biloxi, a handful of Louisiana-based restoration groups headed south for the Chandeleur Islands on Wednesday. The Louisiana...
Where seas are rising at alarming speeds
Apr 29, 2024As sea levels rise, experts say, there are many cities with outdated and overmatched infrastructure systems. “Storm water flooding is getting worse an...
On Our Watch Episode 29: Renee Collini of The Water Institute
Mar 27, 2024Up next on “On Our Watch: A podcast about coastal erosion in Louisiana” is the Institute’s Renee Collini, director of the Gulf Center for Equitable Cl...
On Our Watch
Mar 13, 2024A 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...
The Water Campus is a decade old. What has it accomplished?
Feb 29, 2024It has been a decade since community leaders and local and state government officials gathered at the old municipal dock overlooking the Mississippi R...
On Our Watch Episode 25: Beaux Jones of the Water Institute
Feb 28, 2024Beaux 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, 2024The 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, 2024BATON 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, 2024Gathered 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, 2023Renee Collini, director of the Gulf Center for Equitable Climate Resilience and a contributor to the report, said the country is behind where it needs...