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The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana Awards Second Round of Research Grants
Jul 22, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (July 22, 2021) – Today, the RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) announced the second round of two-year grants to...
Louisiana funds plan to examine life at the base of the Barataria food web
Jul 14, 2021The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved $785,000 in Monitoring and Adaptive Management funding to facilitate the development of a plan...
Smart Port navigation of Mississippi River coming to port of Baton Rouge
Jul 13, 2021Smart Port, a crowd-sourced technology dashboard aimed at allowing ships to better navigate the lower Mississippi River, will soon be coming to the Po...
Sensor data helps ports ensure efficient navigation
Jun 23, 2021Sensors affixed to commercial tugboats and other vessels traveling the Mississippi River will give port operators access to real-time data on water de...
U.S. Department of Commerce awards $1.6M to Louisiana’s Smartport Initiative – New Orleans, Louisiana
Jun 10, 2021Baton Rouge (Press Release) — Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the SmartPort Initiative in Louisiana has received a $ 1.6 million grant from t...
U.S. Department of Commerce awards $1.6M to the Water Institute to establish the Lower Mississippi River SmartPort & Resilience Center
Jun 9, 2021Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Agency announced a $1.6M grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf for the development of...
See what Louisiana will do with a $1.6 million federal grant for ports
Jun 9, 2021The Water Institute of the Gulf has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant for next generation technology that will improve operations at Louisiana...
Where are the U.S.’s natural gas pipelines? Often in vulnerable communities
Jun 4, 2021“Downstream” facilities, like refineries, are also often located in pockets of social vulnerability. In Louisiana, for example, a recent analysis foun...
Here's why Mississippi River diversion was proposed, how it might work
Jun 1, 2021The diversion’s location was chosen in part because the Mississippi’s water would pass over one or more sand bars between the river’s navigation chann...
Climate change-fueled flooding could hit Louisiana the hardest. Can it be stopped?
May 31, 2021The report's findings are supported by Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan, a planned 50-year, $50 billion effort to study the threats of climate change, ...
Waze for Water
May 27, 2021For captains and their crews, moving goods can be a white-knuckle experience. Heavy with goods, boats must dodge each other through fast-moving and sh...
Institute and UNO awarded National Science Foundation grant to support graduate student study in the Netherlands
May 12, 2021NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 12, 2021) - A National Science Foundation grant to The Water Institute of the Gulf and the University of New Orleans will suppor...