CITRA attends the first N-EWN Partner Symposium in St. Augustine, FL
Dr. Felix Santiago-Collazo and Graduate Student Luciana Iannone Tarcha attended the first Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN) Partner Symposium, which took place in St. Augustine, Florida, between May 22nd and 24th. The symposium gathered over 170 people from 28 partner organizations, including industry, non-profit, educational, and government sectors. Amid plenaries, talks, panels, posters, and…
CITRA Grad Students present at the 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Milwaukee, WI
Graduate students Marco Garcia, Dennis Granados, and Stevens Charles presented their research at the 2024 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, between May 19th and 22nd. The conference was held by the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) leader in integrating technical expertise and public…
Evaluating Flood Mitigation on the UGAMI campus
CITRA Student Austin Ramirez at the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium
This past March, CITRA team member, Austin Ramirez Pineda, and the University of Georgia’s American Society of Civil Engineering chapter attended the 2024 Southeast ASCE Student Symposium hosted by the University of Central Florida. 19 universities such as Kennesaw State University, University of Florida, and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez came together to showcase…
IRIS Highlights New Collaborative Research for CITRA
New Technical Assistance Center for Environmental Justice
CITRA Undergraduate Student Highlighted in our College
CITRA Members visit Puerto Rico for data collection
[su_image_carousel source=”media: 1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812″ limit=”1″ controls_style=”light” crop=”none” dots=”no” link=”lightbox”] On February 19-23, CITRA member Orlando Viloria and its PI were in Puerto Rico measuring stream characteristics at various watersheds across the island for Orlando’s Ph.D. Research, which is sponsored by CARICOOS. We had a great time and got our feet wet at several locations throughout the…
CITRA Visits NOAA Office for Flood Forecast
[su_image_carousel source=”media: 1801″ limit=”1″ controls_style=”light” crop=”none” dots=”no” link=”lightbox”] Earlier this week (March 6, 2024), CITRA Lab members were hosted at the NWS Southeast River Forecast Center in Peachtree City, GA. The students learned how to produce flood forecasts for more than 300 watersheds and communicate the risk to the citizens while presenting their research project…
Dr. Walter Silva-Araya visits the CITRA Team
[su_image_carousel source=”media: 1797,1798,1799″ limit=”1″ controls_style=”light” crop=”none” dots=”no” link=”lightbox”] Last week (March 15, 2024), we had the honor to host the Director of the Puerto Rico Water Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Walter F. Silva-Araya, at the University of Georgia College of Engineering Seminar Series. Dr. Silva-Araya meets the CITRA team member and their project, as…
Graduate Students Orlando Viloria and Logan Bayer Attend AGU 2023
[su_image_carousel source=”media: 1769,1768,1767″ limit=”3″ controls_style=”light” crop=”none” dots=”no” link=”lightbox”] Orlando presented “Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling of Coastal Watersheds at an Island Scale” and Logan presented “Multidimensional Hydrodynamic Framework for Modeling Compound Inundation in Coastal Watersheds” in San Francisco, California for AGU 2023.