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USM Prof, Water Institute Work to Restore Chandeleur Islands
Sep 18, 2021A Louisiana-based research organization and a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi are joining forces in a project to examine how to ma...
Understanding the True Flood Risks of Tropical Cyclones
Sep 13, 2021New research led by IIHR Director Gabriele Villarini, working in cooperation with partners at The Water Institute of the Gulf, Louisiana State Univers...
How New Orleans’ infrastructure held up to Hurricane Ida
Sep 3, 2021Today, climate-focused infrastructure projects in the US tend to be narrowly defined and managed by one or two agencies. State and local agencies plan...
Amid the Misery of Hurricane Ida, Coastal Restoration Offers Hope. But the Price Is High
Sep 2, 2021Louisiana has a science-based approach to coastal resilience that is far ahead of other states, said Scott Hemmerling, a cultural geographer who focus...
U.S. Civil Engineers Bent the Rules to Give New Orleans Extra Protection from Hurricanes. Those Adjustments Might Have Saved the City During Ida
Sep 2, 2021Hugh Roberts, the COO of The Water Institute of the Gulf, a non-profit research organization, worked with the Army Corps on post-Katrina flood protect...
Hurricane Ida Hit An Important Oil And Gas Hub, Which Will Likely Drive Up Gas Prices
Sep 1, 2021Hurricane Ida has severely disrupted the lives of people who live in southeastern Louisiana with power failures, cellphone outages and closed business...
River Data Provided by Tugs Improves Mississippi Port Operations
Aug 17, 2021The institute's new Lower Mississippi River SmartPort & Resilience Center (or SmartPort) will develop a decision-support tool that will forecast s...
A city of water: Experts explain how climate change impacts Pittsburgh’s infrastructure
Aug 9, 2021As the climate crisis hastens, many experts believe Pittsburgh — at the center of the Rust Belt — will be a part of something new: the “waterbelt.” In...
Hurricane simulations by Bridges, Bridges-2 inform state decision making
Aug 8, 2021Destruction of coastal habitat doesn’t just affect wildlife—it endangers human lives and impacts employment and the larger economy. Working for the Lo...
Here are Louisiana's seven strategies to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Jul 30, 2021The Louisiana Climate Initiatives Task Force - charged with finding ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lead to hotter temperatures, higher s...
Water Works - A jaunt to Jazz Fest leads to a mission for Louisiana’s wetlands
Jul 30, 2021The weekend after April 20, 2010, was a fateful one for Justin Ehrenwerth ’01. He took a trip with friends to Jazz Fest in New Orleans, where he met u...
Baton Rouge summit will address pending groundwater crisis
Jul 29, 2021Advocates in Baton Rouge are continuing to lobby for protection of the region’s source of drinking water: the Southern Hills Aquifer. Together Baton R...