Press Releases
Dale Morris, former Water Institute Director of Strategic Partnerships, named Charleston’s Chief Resilience Officer
Jun 22, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (June 22, 2021) – Dale Morris, former Director of Strategic Partnerships with the Water Institute, was named the City of Charleston’s...
U.S. Department of Commerce awards $1.6 million to The Water Institute to establish the Lower Mississippi River SmartPort & Resilience Center
Jun 9, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (June 9, 2021) – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Agency announced a $1.6 million grant to The Water Ins...
LSU Senior and Water Institute intern Alexia LaGrone named Udall Scholar
Jun 1, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (June 1, 2021) – Alexia LaGrone, LSU senior and intern with The Water Institute of the Gulf, was recently named as a Udall Scholar by...
Dr. Sam Brody and Dr. Larry Weber join the Water Institute of the Gulf as Senior Fellows
May 26, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (May 26, 2021) – Nationally recognized experts in disaster recovery, coastal systems and hydraulic engineering, Dr. Sam Brody and Dr...
Water Institute joins partners in celebrating the launch of State Resilience Partnership
May 13, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (May 13, 2021) – The Water Institute of the Gulf is proud to be a founding member of a new State Resilience Partnership launched toda...
Webinar: The possibilities of creating a “Living Lab” in Bay Denesse, La.
May 13, 2021NEW ORLEANS, La. (May 13, 2021) – Join The Water Institute of the Gulf and partners to learn about a cooperative endeavor to develop a project area in...
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...
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, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (April 14, 2021) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineering With Nature (EWN®) initiative has selected The Water Institu...
New paper shows benefits of Louisiana coastal restoration to soil carbon sequestration
Mar 31, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (March 31, 2021) – Without restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana, marshes in the state could lose half of their current ability to...
Water Institute joins team selected to develop Virginia's first Coastal Resilience Master Plan
Mar 29, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (March 29, 2021) – The Commonwealth of Virginia announced that The Water Institute of the Gulf will be joining Dewberry, a planning, ...
Institute board member Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou receives 2021 lifetime achievement award
Mar 23, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (March 23, 2021) – Dr. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine, h...
Water Institute's Work Featured in the News
Mar 10, 2021The Institute’s work has been recently featured in a number of national and regional outlets highlighting the range of work in applied science and pol...