Developing new strategies for urban-rural systems to overcome interconnected social, environmental, and technological challenges
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2023 Summer Internships Offer Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research and Design Opportunities
2023 Summer Internships Offer Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research and Design Opportunities

Two Iowa State University students, Keyhani Mahsa, and Josey Weaver, were selected to serve as interns at the 2023 LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio Summer Institute.  Their engagement at the Summer Institute demonstrates one of the many benefits of professional exchanges among participants in the URSYS consortium. During the months of June and July, 20 graduate and undergraduate students from around the world representing seven universities worked in the heat and humidity of Baton Rouge at the Water Campus.  Interns also conducted field research in South Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Four teams of five each looked at […]

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URSYSS second workshop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
URSYSS second workshop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The second URSYS workshop was held at the Center for River Studies at the LSU Water Campus
on November 3-5, 2023. The workshop brought 20 researchers and community stakeholders from
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, together with researchers and
community stakeholders from Louisiana, to continue discussing common research themes along
the urban-rural gradient of the cities along the Mississippi River. Research themes were discussed in working groups on
 Community-engaged research methods, Storytelling as data collection, Water challenges such as nutrient
and stormwater trading, Urban nature and Forest biodiversity, Urban Heat Island mitigation and Climate
risk resilience mapping, Vacant Land related Urban Policy& Planning issues […]

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Lower Delta Partners


Last NameFirst NameOrganizationPositionTheme
AndersonClaireRipple EffectExecutive Director and Co-Founder
BergeronMaryLSU Coastal Ecosystem Design StudioStudio Manager
BirchTraciLSU School of Architecture & LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design StudioAssoicate Director and Assistant Professor
ColtenCraigLSU Department of Geography & AnthropologyProfessor Emeritus
DaigleMelissaLA Sea GrantResearch Attorney
DiIulloDaniLA Sea GrantDirector of Education & Engagement
FriedlandCaorlLSU AgCenter LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource CenterDirector
GhandourMarwanLSU School of ArchitectureDirector, Graduate Coordinator
HemmerlingScottThe Water Institute of the GulfSenior Research Scientist
JeongSooLSU School of ArchitectureAssistant Professor
LivelyJulieLA Sea Grant and LSU School of Renewable Natural ResourcesExecutive Director and Associate Professor
MauchKristen KelschLSU School of Architecture & Ripple EffectAssistant Professor and Director (LSU) of Strategic Partnerships (RE)
NelsonMarlaUniversity of New Orleans Department of Planning and Urban StudiesFreeport Professor of Urban and Public Affairs
OrrMaryleeLEAN – LA Environmental Action NetworkDirector
OrrMichaelLEAN – LA Environmental Action Network
PaceNikiLA Sea GrantResearch Attorney
ReinhardtWillLSU School of Landscape Architecture and Civic StudioInstructor
Shiyou-WoodardJulieSmartHome AmericaCEO
TwilleyRobertLSU Office of Research & Economic DevelopmentInterim Vice President of Research
WillsonClintLSU Center for River Studies and LSU Dept of Civil & Enrionmental EngineeringDirector (LSU CRS) and Professor (LSU)

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