CONSERVE partnered with tribal nations and local officials in Oklahoma for a tabletop exercise aimed at improving flood preparedness and response. The event highlighted the value of local knowledge, cross-jurisdictional collaboration and new NOAA visualization tools in tackling complex flood risks.
CONSERVE aims to revitalize rivercane ecosystems and preserve cultural heritage in the Southeastern U.S. through a $3.8 million grant.
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The story of rivercane is one of resilience, intertwined with the survival of both ecosystems and the Indigenous cultures that have depended on them. These once lush bamboo forests and grasslands that sustained the landscape, known as “canebrakes,” are now endangered. The rapid decline of this native bamboo species has had lasting consequences on the…
The Alabama Water Institute has selected four faculty members from The University of Alabama to serve as 2024-27 fellows in the AWI Faculty Fellowship Program. The program recognizes UA faculty for outstanding research, extension and education programs that significantly advance UA’s interdisciplinary water-related communities of science. In previous years, each cohort was comprised of two…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – University of Alabama researchers have been awarded a $2.34 million federal grant to help prevent and remove marine debris along the Gulf Coast as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Dr. Mark Cheng, professor in UA’s College of Engineering and lead principal investigator, and Michael…
The Alabama Water Institute and the Community Oriented Nature-based Science for Ecosystem Restoration and Versatile Engineering Research Group, or CONSERVE, recently welcomed student intern Peter Feldkamp. Feldkamp, a rising senior at The University of Alabama majoring in biology, joined AWI as an undergraduate research assistant in summer 2024. Feldkamp works under Michael Fedoroff, director of…
Co-authors: Meg Woods, Parker King and Katya Menkina On April 14, our CONSERVE team had the extraordinary opportunity to invite the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians from Louisiana to help thin native rivercane stands in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Thinning native cane stands is vital to the health and resiliency of the cane stand ecosystem. The effort was…
More than 151 participants from around the world recently attended the Department of Defense Cultural Resources Networking even. The Community Oriented Nature-based Science for Ecosystem Restoration and Versatile Engineering Research Group, or CONSERVE, was both an attendee and sponsor of the event. CONSERVE director Michael Fedoroff also serves as co-director of the DOD Partners in…
Members of the Alabama Water Institute recently attended the 104th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. The meeting, held at the end of January, featured several presenters from NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology. The goal of the 2024 meeting was to leverage society’s collective strengths so that communities can…
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