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Louisiana marshes bury carbon in the muck. Could they help fight climate change?

Jan 10, 2024

Gathered 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, 2023

Renee Collini, director of the Gulf Center for Equitable Climate Resilience and a contributor to the report, said the country is behind where it needs...

NOLA Central City Library closure, Miss. River depth studies; interview with Sec. State candidate

Nov 8, 2023

Earlier this year, The Water Institute, a Baton Rouge-based research organization, partnered with more than a dozen operators of vessels on the Missis...

LSU and Tulane awarded $22 million for plan to save Lower Mississippi River Delta

Nov 1, 2023

Besides LSU and Tulane, the consortium includes six historically Black colleges and universities in Louisiana and Mississippi - Southern University of...

Louisiana offshore wind consortium chosen as US Tech Hub

Oct 23, 2023

The GLOW Propeller consortium brings together five universities (LSU, Southern, Tulane, UNO and Xavier), two community colleges (Delgado and Nunez), i...

Biden-Harris Administration awards $6.7 million for sea level rise and coastal resilience research

Oct 18, 2023

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is announcing $6.7 million in fiscal year 2023 funding that will be spent on 18 coastal resi...

Updates from The Water Institute: Oct. 4, 2023

Oct 4, 2023

The Water Institute is an independent, non-profit, applied research institution advancing science and developing integrated methods to solve complex e...

As salt water pushes upriver, Corps prepares to ship in 36M gallons of fresh water a day

Sep 22, 2023

It's not unusual for salt water to move upriver and threaten water supplies during Midwest drought years, said Ioannis Georgiou, a geologist with the ...

Blue Economy Primer

Aug 22, 2023

Published this week, a new episode of the Deep Blue Economy Primer featuring Beaux explaining the history and promising future of technology and polic...

Lights Out Louisiana to help protect billions of migratory birds flying over state

Aug 15, 2023

Beaux Jones, acting president and CEO of The Water Institute, emphasized the importance of the Lights Out initiative, stating, “Living in Louisiana, a...

Beaux Jones of The Water Institute Selected as Member for the Committee of 100 for Economic Development, Ince.

Jul 19, 2023

The Committee of 100 for Economic Development, Inc. has selected Beaux Jones of The Water Institute for membership in 2023. C100 CEO Michael Olivier s...