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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers selects Water Institute to analyze policies and procedures to better quantify environmental and social benefits for nature-based solutions

Apr 20, 2021

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institute of the Gulf to analyze how the fe...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers selects Water Institute to analyze policies and procedures to better quantify environmental and social benefits for nature-based solutions

Apr 14, 2021

BATON ROUGE, La. (April 14, 2021) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institu...

Water Institute will work with corps to amend cost-benefit analyses process

Apr 14, 2021

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected The Water Institute of the Gulf to analyze how the federal benefit-cost analysis, used to select project...

Bridges-2 Begins Production Operations

Apr 8, 2021

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has approved PSC’s new Bridges-2 system for production operations. PSC offers time on the NSF-funded, advanced r...

New paper shows benefits of Louisiana coastal restoration to soil carbon sequestration

Apr 5, 2021

Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to store carbon in the soil over a per...

Water Institute will help develop Virginia’s coastal master plan

Mar 29, 2021

Baton Rouge’s Water Institute of the Gulf has landed a contract with the Commonwealth of Virginia to develop the state’s first coastal resilience mast...

Louisiana: The state we're in

Mar 26, 2021

There’s concern that the source for the drinking water serving Baton Rouge, along with the northern 10 parishes of Southeastern, LA., is at risk becau...

Institute board member Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou receives 2021 lifetime achievement award

Mar 23, 2021

Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine, has been awarded the 2021 Community S...

Virginia inks contract for state coastal flooding plan, expected to be done before Northam leaves office

Mar 19, 2021

The engineering firm that oversaw Virginia Beach’s $3.8 million sea level rise and flooding study will take a leading role in developing Virginia’s Co...

Dewberry selected to develop Va. coastal resilience plan

Mar 18, 2021

Fairfax-based engineering and planning firm Dewberry has been awarded a $2.6 million contract by the state to develop Virginia’s first Coastal Resilie...

How much carbon can Louisiana's wetlands hold? New study aims to find out

Feb 22, 2021

Louisiana's marshes are masters at capturing carbon from the air, locking it in the soil beneath the water's surface where it won't disturb the atmosp...

Baton Rouge, New Orleans area People in Business for Feb. 21, 2021

Feb 21, 2021

Jason Curole has been named director of project management at The Water Institute of the Gulf. He was a data scientist and business leader for three y...