CITRA Students Veronica Perez and Aubrey Bunger present at the 2025 CURO Symposium

Undergraduate students Veronica Perez and Aubrey Bunger presented at the 2025 CURO Symposium on April 7th at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia. The symposium offers an opportunity for students to communicate their research to the broader community, highlighting excellence in undergraduate research at the University of Georgia. Read more on the CURO webpage. Veronica…

CITRA PhD Students Orlando Viloria and Luciana Tarcha present at the 2025 Georgia Water Resources Conference

On March 25, PhD students Orlando Viloria and Luciana Tarcha presented their research at the 2025 Georgia Water Resources Conference in Dr. Santiago’s session for Flood Modeling. The conference, hosted by the River Basin Center at the University of Georgia, gathered over 350 attendees. Orlando presented “Island-scale hydrologic and hydraulic modeling framework for Caribbean islands”….

Marco Garcia wins the Fall 2024 3MT® People’s Choice award

CITRA graduate student Marco Garcia won the Fall 2024 3MT® People’s Choice award, which is given to the contestant who receives the most votes from viewers of the competition. Watch his presentation “A Multi-model Approach to Evaluate Hybrid Coastal Features: A Resilience-based Assessment” here.   “After the 3MT competition results and getting the People’s Choice…

CITRA Student Marco Garcia is one of the Fall 2024 Finalists at the 3MT® Competition

Graduate Student Marco Garcia is one of the Fall 2024 Finalists at the 3MT® Competition. Marco shared his work “A Multi-Model Approach to Evaluate Hybrid Coastal Features: A Resilience-Based Assessment” in the first round of presentations and was selected as one of the 10 finalists. Finals will be held on Thursday, November 14 at Morton…

Logan Bayer and Stevens Charles successfully defend their Masters theses

Logan Bayer defended his thesis on Wednesday, October 30 MS in Engineering, Emphasis in Environmental Engineering “Redefining the Bounds of approximations to the Sant-Venant Equations for Overland and Riverine Flows in Compound Flood Simulations” Abstract: Floods are extremely destructive and affect many people every year. For example, Hurricane Ian in 2022 was responsible for over…

Dennis Granados and Dr. Santiago-Collazo present at the XXXI IAHR Latin American Congress of Hydraulics in Medellin, Colombia

CITRA members Dennis Granados and Dr. Santiago-Collazo participated in the XXXI IAHR Latin American Congress of Hydraulics, held on October 1st – 4th in Medellin, Colombia. The Latin American Congress of Hydraulics is an important event for exchanges between the technical and scientific community of water throughout Latin America, with multiple technical sessions in which…

CITRA Project selected for funding through the “Reinvesting in Collected Data” 2024 US Coastal Research Program (USCRP)

“Assessing Compound Flood Impacts on Groundwater Levels in Coastal Urban Communities”  Lead PI: Felix Santiago-Collazo, University of Georgia  Co PIs: Adam Milewski and Jessica Brown, University of Georgia; & Carol Pride, Savannah State University  Collaborators: Alan Roberts, City of Tybee Island & Doug Haymas, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Resource Division Read more at…