Press Releases
ICYMI: Mayor Turner launches the Resilient Houston strategy and signs historic executive order to prepare the city for future disasters
Feb 13, 2020HOUSTON (Feb. 13, 2020) – On Wednesday, Mayor Sylvester Turner released the “Resilient Houston” strategy – a framework to help Houston mitigate flood ...
Water Institute welcomes three new board members and a new science and engineering advisory council member
Feb 5, 2020BATON ROUGE, La. (Feb. 5, 2020) - The Water Institute of the Gulf is honored to welcome three exceptional new members to the board of directors – Dr. ...
ICYMI: Mayor Sylvester Turner is proud to announce the release of the Living With Water Houston report
Jan 31, 2020BATON ROUGE, La. (Jan. 31, 2020) – The City of Houston released the following about work The Water Institute of the Gulf, New Orleans-based architectu...
Neotectonics and Subsidence Expert Panel to meet in New Orleans
Nov 19, 2019NEW ORLEANS, La. (Nov. 19, 2019) – The first of three workshops to examine subsidence, including active faulting, in Louisiana's coastal zone and pote...
The Water Institute receives $500,000 through the National Coastal Resilience Fund to support the Partnership for Our Working Coast
Nov 18, 2019NEW ORLEANS, La. (Nov 18, 2019) – The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) anno...
Dutch Dialogues Charleston team delivers final report to city outlining a more water-friendly future
Sep 27, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (Sept. 27, 2019) – A new report released to the City of Charleston Thursday outlines months of community conversations around how to ...
ICYMI: Gov. Edwards announces Coastal Technical Assistance Center
Sep 13, 2019THIBODAUX, La. (Sept. 13, 2019) – Gov. John Bel Edwards, Nicholls State University President Jay Clune and South Louisiana Economic Council President ...
Jessi Parfait, anthropologist, joins Institute as research associate
Aug 21, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 21, 2019) – Jessi Parfait, anthropologist, joined the human dimensions team at the Institute in early August, bringing her enth...
Dr. Ioannis Georgiou to join Institute as Director of Coastal and Deltaic Systems Modeling
Aug 19, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (Aug. 19, 2019) – Uprooted from his home in the foothills of Cyprus during the civil war at the age of three, Ioannis Georgiou experi...
Civil Engineer Brett McMann joins the Institute
Jul 31, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (July 31, 2019) – Brett McMann grew up around the engineering world, but it wasn’t until he started work on the old LSU River Model a...
New report from Tulane/Institute looks at investment and adaptation in vulnerable communities
Jul 25, 2019Facing multiple challenges from rising seas to repetitive flooding, a new issue paper from the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy an...
Dr. Dalyander honored with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Jul 24, 2019BATON ROUGE, La. (July 24, 2019) – On July 2, The White House announced that Patricia (Soupy) Dalyander was one of the recipients of this year’s Presi...