Author Emily Fischer


AWI Partners with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Youth Corps Program

The Alabama Water Institute recently became a member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Youth Corps Program. This program enables USFWS to fund work on public lands through student internships. AWI CONSERVE interns who complete a minimum of 640 hours of work benefitting public lands are eligible to receive a two-year Public Lands Corps…


UA’s Global Water Security Center Makes Connections at UN Water Conference

Represented by the Global Water Security Center, The University of Alabama was one of only 440 organizations including only 80 universities worldwide awarded special accreditation to participate in the 2023 United Nations Water Conference. Mike Gremillion, GWSC director and interim executive director of the Alabama Water Institute, and Dr. Kate Brauman, GWSC associate director for…


AWI, Kentuck Art Center Partner for Tuscaloosa Waterways Exhibit

The Kentuck Art Center has partnered with the Alabama Water Institute to present “An Exploration of Tuscaloosa’s Waterways,” an art exhibition spanning Kentuck’s Museum, Teer and SoNo Galleries. The exhibition will remain open to the public until April 30. The exhibit features the work of 28 artists, as well as educational tools, such as an…


AWI Spotlight: Natalie Crisci

The Alabama Water Institute recently welcomed student intern Natalie Crisci as an undergraduate research assistant. Crisci, a senior at The University of Alabama, joined AWI in the fall of 2022. She is majoring in civil engineering with minors in Italian and the Randall Research Scholars program. She is an assistant to Amy Hammett, AWI’s director…


AWI Staff, Affiliates Attend Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting

Members of the Alabama Water Institute recently attended the 103rd meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Denver, Colorado. This year’s theme was “Data: Driving Science. Informing Decisions. Enriching Humanity.” Data was chosen as the focus as it is the “engine of hypothesis-driven science and the fuel for inductive, empirical investigation.” Dr. Steve Burian, Dr.…


AWI Spotlight: Cody Taylor

The Alabama Water Institute recently welcomed student intern Cody Taylor as an undergraduate research assistant. Taylor, a sophomore at The University of Alabama, joined AWI in August 2022. He is on the STEM path to an MBA, majoring in math with a minor in the Randall Research Scholars program. He is an assistant to Amy Hammett, AWI’s…


UA Hosts Symposium to Address Food and Water Challenges

The University of Alabama recently hosted “Multiple Inequalities in Every Meal: Theorizing Intersectional Foodways, Past and Present.” This interdisciplinary workshop assembled an international panel of food scholars from archaeology, cultural anthropology, American studies, women’s studies and African American studies to engage in discourse about the ways inequality was manufactured and maintained in the past and…


AWI Researcher Develops New Snow Model Machine Learning Tutorial

The creation of a new machine learning tutorial based on a national snow model from researchers at The University of Alabama and the University of Utah has been funded by a grant from the Earth Science Information Partners. Dr. Ryan Johnson, an artificial intelligence research scientist at the Alabama Water Institute, and his collaborator, Dane Liljestrand,…


UA Center Recognized as Part of National Global Water Security Strategy

The University of Alabama’s Global Water Security Center has been recognized in the new U.S. Government Global Water Strategy. The strategy, which aligns federal efforts to address global water challenges, includes U.S. government agency-specific plans. The Department of Defense will address “Strategic Objective 4: Anticipate and Reduce Conflict and Fragility Related to Water” with support…


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