Navid Jafari

BREAKING NEWS: Jean-Louis and Janet Briaud are designating $500,000 of their $1 million @ASCETweets endowment to support G-I student activities! Today, G-I launches a campaign to double the impact of the Briauds' gift and endow G-I student programs. Info: geoinstitute.org/news/g-i-stude…

The @NSF supported #neer and #geer associations are conducting a large data collection effort in response to #HurricaneHelene and #hurricanemilton. It is my great honor to host this effort at @essie_uf @UFcoastal. We're expecting more than 20 researchers and @NHERI_RAPID

Our recent #NSFfunded deployment to Florida to support the #NEER team led by @NinaStark18 was written about in the University of Washington news. Read more about the work here: bit.ly/3TXE4aG @NHERIDesignSafe

Congratulations to the 2024 Croes Medal winners: Anand Puppala of @TAMUCVEN, Santiago Caballero of @Geosyntec, Tejo Bheemasetti of @UACEEM, and Sayantan Chakraborty of @bitspilaniindia! More info on the award at asce.org/career-growth/…

@jcadig1 @dr_bw @NinaStark18 Hi @dr_bw, what are you doing for your sabbatical?

Gators go 2-10 this year?

@JamesMKaihatu I quizzed my students on which two hurricanes made landfall on LA on this day.

Our lineup is finalized for next week's Labor Day Director's Cut Extravaganza! Priscilla Nelson of @coschoolofmines, Soheil Nazarian of @EngineeringUTEP, Joel Dellaria of @Keller_NA, and Cassie Rutherford of @ISU_CoE. 4 episodes in 4 days. Are you ready to be back? #FeelTheTeal

DO NOT FORGET that the call for abstracts is open for #GeoExtreme 2025! Think really extreme thoughts and then start your submission at geoinstitute.org/news/geo-extre…

DEVELOPING STORY: The call for abstracts for #GeoExtreme is open and ready for your excellent submission! Details at geoinstitute.org/news/geo-extre…

And with that, the 2024 workshop comes to an end! 🎉 Congratulations to all participants, now advanced users of the @NHERI_EER RAPID Facility. And a big thank you to all instructors, staff, and students for bringing together a fantastic event. #NSFfunded #Research #Education

Our paper (with Alex Ramirez, @JafariLabLSU, Sabarethinam Kameshwar, and Ignacio Harrouch) got published! Check it out! ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.106…

@joseluisrolando @UF @UF_MCS @UFIFAS_FLREC Congrats, Jose! Looking forward to your excellent work.

Excited to announce that I'll be returning to @UF as an Assistant Professor in Microbial Ecology @UF_MCS starting January 2025! My lab at @UFIFAS_FLREC will study how biogeochemical transformations mediated by plant-microbe interactions impact ecosystem function. Stay tuned!

#NHERIHurricanePrep @NSF -funded Extreme Events Research teams conduct recon missions to collect _perishable data_ after hurricanes. Learn about this vital data, from @NHERI_CONVERGE : doi.org/10.1111/disa.1…

RAPID collaborated with #GEER and #NEER in a deployment after Hurricane Ida (2021), documenting flood protection system performance using remote sensing technology. This data was featured in a recently published article: bit.ly/3KF1L2p #NHERIHurricanePrep #Geotechnical

@clintwillson @LSU_CCE @LSUEngineering @LSU_CEE @lsuscience @LouisianaCPRA Is there a boat crashed into the breakwater in the first photo?

Great day on Grand Isle with @LSU_CCE @LSUEngineering @LSU_CEE @lsuscience faculty and students. Spent the morning talking beach nourishment and breakwaters with @LouisianaCPRA Kazi Sadid.

@Mostafavi_Ali For someone like me who frequents Houston a lot, the development rate is scary. At least compared to Louisiana…

In Harris County, Texas, 98.6K new buildings were built between 2019 and now. 49.6K of which (51%) are in 100-year flood plains while 100-year flood plain only account for less than 20% of the area in Harris County. It all happened after Harvey! Do you see the problem? Stay tuned for more findings in our soon to be out paper! @HoustonMatters @HoustonChron