What Is the Relationship Between Climate Change and Flooding?

This blog post was written by Hunter Cutts as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Sea level rise has been documented since the early 20th century and continues to be one of the most visible and talked about results of global warming. Hundreds of millions of people in the United States live in coastal areas that are vulnerable to flooding at the current sea level, and will become even more vulnerable as…

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Can Green Infrastructure Act As an Alternative Method to Improve Watershed Health?

This blog post was written by Mikala Newsom as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. As watershed health continues to decline with increasing urbanization and population growth, it is necessary to adjust infrastructure in order to mitigate water quality issues. (Tolbert & Hanson et al. 2012) Currently, gray infrastructure is mainly used when dealing with water distribution and how it is transferred from human facilities back into the environment. Gray infrastructure been…

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