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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 ...
Blue Economy Primer
Aug 22, 2023Published 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, 2023Beaux 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, 2023The Committee of 100 for Economic Development, Inc. has selected Beaux Jones of The Water Institute for membership in 2023. C100 CEO Michael Olivier s...
Pittsburgh region faces increasing rain, flood risks as planet warms
Jul 16, 2023“Instead of planning for what you think is most likely today, and then crossing your fingers, you’re instead taking into account the possible futures ...
Is BP spill damage to wildlife being repaired? New programs aim to find out
Jul 3, 2023Is the more than $8 billion being spent on restoring damage caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill succeeding in rebuilding wetlands, resto...
Data suggests bayou communities are moving northward, accelerated by Ida
Jun 26, 2023The Water Institute's Senior Research Scientist Scott Hemmerling has studied coastal population migration trends from the 1950s through to present cau...