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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...
Nicholls State University to receive $500,000 grant for coastal research
Jul 27, 2021Nicholls State University will receive nearly $500,000 to conduct research aimed at helping Louisiana preserve its eroding coast. The $495,368 will c...
Louisiana SmartPort to boost data awareness for inland shipping
Jul 23, 2021The SmartPort initiative was launched in June 2021 through a $1.6 million grant from the US Economic Development Administration and a $1.4 million com...
SmartPort Project to Collect Crowdsourced Sediment Data
Jul 23, 2021Ports along the Mississippi River in Louisiana will begin working with the Water Institute of the Gulf, an applied research nonprofit in Baton Rouge, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...