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Our transdisciplinary team of geologists, ecologists, engineers, data scientists, modelers, geographers, anthropologists, planners, and attorneys work to develop solutions that provide economic, environmental, and social benefits, rigorously quantify the outcomes, and adaptively manage to promote understanding and improve subsequent decision making.
The Water Institute is an independent, non-profit, applied research institution advancing science and developing integrated methods to solve complex environmental and societal challenges.
How we work
The Water Institute methodology employs applied science to assist communities to make informed decisions by evaluating science, research, and community priorities.
In The News
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The Case for Natural Infrastructure in the Face of Climate Change: N-EWN Partners Published in the Washington Post
On March 7th, 2021, N-EWN partners from the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure Systems and the Water Institute of the Gulf published a perspective piece in the Washington Post titled, How nature can help solve our infrastructure crisis amid extreme weather, climate change. In the article, Director of IRIS, Dr. Brian Bledsoe and Director of TWIG, Dr. Justin Ehrenswerth made the…
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Learn more about The Water Institute’s work as Louisiana’s Coastal Innovation and Collaboration Hub.