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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…

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 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…

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 graduate students Luciana Tarcha and Marco Garcia get awarded at the Second Annual Confluence Poster Symposium hosted by the River Basin Center (RBC).     This year featured 29 posters from graduate students across disciplines, including the College of Engineering, Odum School of Ecology, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, College of…

“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…

CITRA member Jackson Robider attended the 17th Annual Georgia Environmental Conference (GEC) at Jekyll Island, GA, from August 21st to 23rd  as a finalist for a student scholarship given out annually by the conference. While there, he presented his work on Flood Modeling in Glynn County, GA, and the determination of flood and environmental contamination…