Press Releases
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...
Article on participatory modeling receives the Journal of Geographical Systems Best Paper Award 2020
Mar 10, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (March 10, 2021) – Research on better ways to incorporate local knowledge into numerical modeling, and the resulting journal article,...
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...
Jordan Fischbach joins The Water Institute of the Gulf as the Director of Planning and Policy Research
Feb 18, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 18, 2021) – Jordan Fischbach, Ph.D., senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, will join the institute on March 29 as t...
The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana requests proposals for $2.3 million in available funding
Feb 15, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 15, 2021) – The RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana (LA-COE) released a second Request for Proposals today and is en...
Dr. Jason Curole to join The Water Institute of the Gulf as Director of Project Management
Feb 4, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 4, 2021) – Jason Curole, Ph.D., will be joining The Water Institute of the Gulf as the Director of Project Management on Feb. 2...
Webinar: The Louisiana-Netherlands Partnership in Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Adaptation
Jan 6, 2021BATON ROUGE, La. (Jan. 6, 2021) – Join The Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Water Institute of the Gulf, and key partners on Jan. 14, 2021 for a webinar...
Institute to help state quantify carbon sequestration potential of coastal restoration projects
Aug 19, 2020BATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 19, 2020) – Today, Governor John Bel Edwards signed two climate change related executive orders with the first designed to imp...
Institute to help state quantify carbon sequestration potential of coastal restoration projects
Aug 19, 2020BATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 19, 2020) – Today, Governor John Bel Edwards signed two climate change related executive orders with the first designed to impr...