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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...
NOLA Central City Library closure, Miss. River depth studies; interview with Sec. State candidate
Nov 8, 2023Earlier 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, 2023Besides 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, 2023The 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, 2023NOAA’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, 2023The 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, 2023It's not unusual for salt water to move upriver and threaten water supplies during Midwest drought years, said Ioannis Georgiou, a geologist with the ...