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Nicholls State University to receive $500,000 grant for coastal research

Jul 27, 2021

Nicholls 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, 2021

The 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, 2021

Ports 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, 2021

BATON 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, 2021

The 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, 2021

Smart 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, 2021

Sensors 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, 2021

Baton 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, 2021

The 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, 2021

Today, 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...

Here's why Mississippi River diversion was proposed, how it might work

Jun 1, 2021

The 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...