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06/03/2026

Day 1 of the Community Resilience Center’s Workshop was a success!
 
This event, hosted at the beautiful Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center in Pensacola Florida, serves as a response to 2023’s inception of the Center, where Gulf communities and partners collaborated to address systemic barriers to community-led resilience and increase overall capacity within the region. For more information about the Community Resilience Center and to read their strategic framework visit thewaterinstitute.org/crc.
 

Day 1 of the Community Resilience Center's Workshop was a success! This event, hosted at the beautiful Voices of Pensaco...
06/03/2026

Day 1 of the Community Resilience Center's Workshop was a success!

This event, hosted at the beautiful Voices of Pensacola Multicultural Center in Pensacola Florida, serves as a response to 2023's inception of the Center, where Gulf communities and partners collaborated to address systemic barriers to community-led resilience and increase overall capacity within the region. For more information about the Community Resilience Center and to read their strategic framework visit thewaterinstitute.org/crc.

06/02/2026

The Mississippi River connects us.

From the Headwaters to the Gulf, the river sustains communities, cultures, ecosystems, economies, wildlife, agriculture, transportation, and ways of life across the basin.

This National Mississippi River Day, we’re celebrating this iconic waterway and the people and places connected by it. Launched by 1 Mississippi in 2025, this day reflects the growing recognition of the Mississippi River as a source of knowledge, resilience, and shared responsibility far beyond any one community or state.

And through the Mississippi River 100 Initiative, The Water Institute has joined with partners across the Basin to commemorate the centennial of the Great Flood of 1927 and help shape the river’s next 100 years through science, community collaboration, and shared vision.

The river’s story belongs to all of us. Its future will take all of us.

Learn more and join the conversation: www.mississippi100.org

The Community Resilience Catalyst Program is expanding Gulf-wide!Launched in Spring 2025, the Catalyst was created to ra...
05/26/2026

The Community Resilience Catalyst Program is expanding Gulf-wide!

Launched in Spring 2025, the Catalyst was created to rapidly deploy support for community resilience in often overlooked communities. Now, with generous support from an anonymous donor, the program is expanding beyond Louisiana to support coastal communities in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Across the Gulf, communities are already leading work to prepare for, respond to, and adapt to flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat, coastal change, and other hazards. But many face barriers such as limited staff capacity, technical expertise, funding access, or aligned resources needed to move resilience goals into action.

The Catalyst helps address those barriers by connecting local governments and community-based organizations with tailored educational opportunities, technical support, and added capacity to advance the next phase of resilience planning and action.
To learn more about the Catalyst and the Community Resilience Center at the Water Institute, visit thewaterinstitute.org/crc/catalyst.

About the Image: ANCHOR the Bayou Program Manager Elizabeth Daigle leads a focus group discussion, with support from Renee Collini and Kathryn Keating of The Water Institute's Community Resilience Center, about resilience solutions at the Fall 2025 ANCHOR the Bayou Focus Group at the South Regional Branch of the Terrebonne Parish Library. Photo Credit: Bayou Community Foundation

The National Adaptation Forum brings together some of top practitioners in the field every two years and this year’s eve...
05/22/2026

The National Adaptation Forum brings together some of top practitioners in the field every two years and this year’s event was no different in Pittsburgh.

The Water Institute Staff from the Community Resilience Center (CRC) and Planning and Policy Research (PPR) teams shared work on community-led migration, climate adaptation planning, flood risk reduction, health equity, visual communication, and decision-making under uncertainty.

It’s all a part of turning adaptation awareness into adaptation action, one project at a time.

Check out some of our best shots and learn more about our work at thewaterinstitute.org.

The Water Institute joined collaborators and partners from across the Gulf Coast for GulfCon 2026 in Mobile, Alabama. Th...
05/20/2026

The Water Institute joined collaborators and partners from across the Gulf Coast for GulfCon 2026 in Mobile, Alabama. The three-day event featured sessions, panels and conversations, incorporating the best in research across costal restoration, ecosystem resilience, data and monitoring and more.

Attendees even got to get in a yoga session or two during the conference.

Check out some of our photos from the event and learn more about the collaborative work being done across the Gulf at thewaterinstitute.org.

05/19/2026

The Water Institute is seeking an experienced Coastal Scientist to support the development of physics-based multidimensional coastal and estuarine hydrodynamic modeling frameworks.

This role will support decision support, evaluate coastal restoration approaches, and quantify benefits and consequences from restoration activities, including flooding in urban, coastal, and marsh settings, coastal sediment transport, nature-based solutions, and other ecosystem restoration approaches.

💧 Support and lead the identification, acquisition, analysis, and synthesis of datasets for coastal modeling applications
💧 Work with climate model data, sea level projections, NOAA and USGS gauges, spatial datasets, and global reanalysis datasets
💧 Support creation of physics-based hydrodynamic models for various coastal applications
💧 Interpret and disseminate data and model outputs for ecosystem restoration projects, decision science, and specialized analysis
💧 Publish methods, results, and interpretations in technical memos and scientific papers
💧 Present research findings to diverse audiences, including conferences, seminars, and stakeholder meetings
💧 Interact across disciplines and with technical teams from different departments

We’re looking for someone with a PhD and 1–2 years of experience in a quantitative field such as science or engineering, with expertise in coastal science, surface processes, climate model downscaling, sea level science, and coastal hydrodynamics.

Strong candidates will bring proven experience with collaborative model development, communication of science to community and stakeholder audiences, excellent programming skills in Python, experience with SFINCS/Delft3D, working knowledge of HPC environments and BASH scripting, and strong written and oral communication skills.

Desired experience includes familiarity with climate downscaling or reanalysis products, coastal modeling datasets, additional hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, statistical techniques, current scientific literature related to coastal surface processes, and identifying and assisting with funding acquisition.

Learn more and apply: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=cfe9eb33-0f69-467c-bb2a-1bd0ea7c0cf1&ccId=19000101_000001&type=MP&lang=en_US&jobId=918933

05/13/2026

Rooted in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, our work is shaped by the challenges, communities, and waterways that define this region.

But the issues we tackle — flood risk, coastal change, resilience planning, and adapting to an uncertain future — are not limited to one geography.

That’s why our team brings Louisiana and Gulf Coast experience to other places facing similar challenges, while also learning from our expert and community partners working across the country.

This week our Pittsburgh-based Vice President for Applied Research, Jordan Fischbach, welcomes our team and colleagues to Pittsburgh for the National Adaptation Forum.

Our Community Resilience Center (CRC) and Planning and Policy Research (PPR) teams are at the National Adaptation Forum ...
05/13/2026

Our Community Resilience Center (CRC) and Planning and Policy Research (PPR) teams are at the National Adaptation Forum this week, and they left room in their bags to bring home insights and ideas from their fellow practitioners!

Check out our hub for Institute participation in the National Adaptation Forum: thewaterinstitute.org/naf26

05/12/2026

Just like our challenges, our communities are connected - by waterways, policy, and decisions that affect all of us.

Solving complex, cross-cutting challenges takes the best problem solvers. Our team works across disciplines to turn knowledge into action. We integrate data, policy, environmental dynamics, and ecosystem science to support better decision making.

While many of us are based in Louisiana and across the Gulf, we bring together the best people and expertise from wherever they are. Connected by one thing – water.

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