News Highlights
December 2023: Sid is attending the United Nations COP 28 Conference on Climate Change, as a panelist for a side event on Nature-based Solutions. Join the panel for an interdisciplinary discussion between engineers and landscape architects on the role of nature-based solutions for climate resilience, drawdown and biodiversity. Event details: Nature-based Solutions & the Built Environment: Designing for Resilience, Drawdown & Biodiversity Friday, December 8, 7.45 AM – 9.15 AM EST / 4.45 PM – 6.15 PM GST, Official COP28 Blue Zone Side Event, SE Room 9 November 2023: Georgette presented a poster on her dissertation work on oyster reefs and wave attenuation at the ASCE INSPIRE 2023 Conference. November 2023: The CANAL Lab had an enjoyable and productive lab retreat at the Coastal Studies Institute. Apr 2022: Zaid Al-Attabi and Yicheng Xu gave presentations in topic of Hurricane modeling and Nuisance flooding in ECU RCAW 2022 Conference. Feb 2022: Congratulations! Georgette Tso and Yicheng Xu have been chosen as 2022 student Water Scholars Award by ECU Water Resource Center. Oct 2021: Yicheng Xu gave a prestation in topic of The Social - economic Impact of Nuisance flooding in YCECA Conference at Myrtle Beach, SC. Aug 2020: A big welcome to the new, highly motivated and incredibly talented cohort of ECU ICS PhD students! Apr 2020: Semester Wrap up: Just wrapped up an undergraduate course that had to go all online halfway through the semester. HUGE shout out to our students for showing up for every class and keeping up all our spirits! Mar 2020: Global Mangrove Benefits: Our global analyses of flood reduction benefits from mangroves now out in Scientific Reports. US, China, Mexico see greatest $ benefits from mangroves; India, Vietnam and Bangladesh see greatest people benefits. Mar 2020: COVID-19 Pandemic: Who'd have imagined - and just after a NO CRISES post. All classes and campus-based activities suspended or gone online due to COVID-19. Stay Safe! Feb 2020: NO CRISES: Our collaborative NSF Belmont Forum Proposal just got awarded! Excited to start working on understanding and helping to resolve ocean conflicts with an amazing international group of experts. Jan 2020: Pacific Adaptation: A happening month... a long-in-the-works paper on coastal adaptation strategies in the Pacific, now out in Env. Sci & Policy. Semester Experience at the Coast: Just kick-started the first undergraduate semester at the coast (SEC) with a brand new cohort of students and faculty. Let's Get It Started: The Narayan Lab officially started at ECU's Coastal Campus, at the Coastal Studies Institute along with 5 other excellent new faculty! |
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