Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab

Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice (SIRJ) Lab @UofMaryland | Founder&Director Dr. Marccus Hendricks @mdhDuBois; Manager&PostDoc Dr. @PriscilaBRAlves

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Final gathering of the SIRJ lab this semester! We’re soooo proud of these students! 1 PhD defense, 3 papers published, 1 grant approved, other manuscripts under way and mainly: we could never do the research that we do without them!

Much more to come! Now enjoy the summer ☀️

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

The lab had a great #fieldwork day with #IoTsensors installation & calibration 💦

Special thanks to our amazing team working in the #water even though it finally feels winter is here

💧Brian, Qianyao, Ben, Maria, Zoe, Vimu & Priscila
💧This project is funded by @SustainableUMD

[Marccus D. Hendricks @mdhDuBois]

The @sirjLab is collaborating on our first international workshop w/ colleagues from @UFCG_Oficial in Campina Grande, BR, w/ Drs. @IanaRufino & @PriscilaBRAlves at the helm. Water challenges & inequality know no boundaries & we are meeting the moment. 🌊@UMDResearch @UMD_MAPPD

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Following some updates and presentations on the project, now the games begin!ha Water scenarios, real human perceptions, adaptation strategies, and points for added water security! The different players come from academe, civil defense, local government, & beyond!

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WE ARE HIRING!

We look for two highly motivated undergraduates from UMD to support in our #InternetofThings Research Project! 💧

This position is up to 10 hrs/week and begins in Fall 2024! Interested? Send your CV to us!

Spread the word to your contacts 🗣️

[Dr. Priscila Alves @PriscilaBRAlves]

Highlights of @sirjLab’s research at Maryland Day! I’m so proud of this group- it’s amazing when we have such a team doing amazing research! Go team!

This year we had a big table w/ IoT Project and Water Emergency Team (collab w/ SPH) @WET_umd

#flooding #sewage #bacteria

[Marccus D. Hendricks @mdhDuBois]

The @sirjLab and @WET_umd team in full effect at @UofMaryland #MarylandDay! 🌊🏠🚽🦠

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Our models R-square values accounted for around 60% of the storm sewer pipe variation.

And even while controlling for several landscape and built factors, and accounting for inflated betas as a result of spatial autocorrelation, the SVI was still statistically significant!

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Our lab is on a roll with our latest manuscript, “Socially vulnerable people and stormwater infrastructure: A geospatial exploration of the equitable distribution of gray and green infrastructure in Washington D.C.”

Read the full text here: https://t.co/5I8yheoB4l

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

We are happy to announce that our PhD candidate Minkyu Park is now Dr. Park!

He was supervised by our director @mdhDuBois and had Drs. Priscila Alves, Ariel Bierbaum, Clara Irazábal, and Laixiang Sun in his committee!

Celebrate the new PhD with us! Congratulations, Minkyu! 🥳

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Hot off the press 📠, our latest manuscript, “Slow Violence to Disasters: Exploring racialized topographies & contextualizing social vulnerability to flood & other environmental risks” led by our dual degree masters student, Asia Jones. Congrats Asia! 🎉

https://t.co/o5V67Brr84

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Our lab manager & postdoc is talking about @WET_umd research project at the @theNASEM workshop today! RSVP to join!

#flood #sewage #publichealth #infrastructure

[Dr. Priscila Alves @PriscilaBRAlves]

Flooding put community health at risk. Join me 3/18 for a @theNASEM workshop discussing resilience strategies to protect communities from flood risks.

I’ll be sharing about sewage overflows events and findings from our @WET_umd
research project!

RSVP:
https://t.co/eWiUdBwRPo

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Our director @mdhDuBois received the Provost’s @DoGoodatUMD Innovator Award!

The award recognizes excellence by members of the UMD community who create social impact through education, programs, and research, both in and outside the classroom.

We are so proud of you, Marccus!

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2024 started right to the SIRJ lab!

Our manager & postdoc @PriscilaBRAlves is doing several meetings with collaborators in Brazil about our research projects. We can only say: great things are coming!

Huge thanks to Prof. Iana Rufino @IanaRufino and her group for the collab!

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

SIRJ went international! Our PhD candidate, Higor Brito, presented our work at the @abrh_Hidricos conference in Brazil! The biggest Water Conference in 🇧🇷

We are so excited with this collab between @UMD_MAPPD and @UFCG_Oficial! So much more to come! Well done, Higor! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Dr. Priscila Alves @PriscilaBRAlves]

Super excited with this project 🤩🥳

If you are interested in hearing more about how we investigate Sewage Overflow Events in Maryland follow the Water Emergency Team (WET) Project in @WET_umd 💦🦠

@sirjLab @UMD_MAPPD

#sewageoverflow #urbanplanning #publichealth

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Yesterday we had our SIRJ Lab meeting and we are so excited to share our students.

This team is AWESOME! We are lucky to have them in our lab! Multiple countries and research represented in the @sirjLab

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#urbanplanning #stormwater #resilience #infrastructure

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Stay tuned!! More info to come very soon 👀👀👀

#PhDfunding #UrbanPlanning #PublicHealth @WET_umd

[Marccus D. Hendricks @mdhDuBois]

Soft Announcement🚨! I will be recruiting a funded environmental planning PhD student position to work in my @sirjLab focused on our @WET_umd project in collaboration with @RachelRoGo. 1/

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Go team!! @emmie_healey is presenting a poster at the @UNC_Water_Inst Conference this week! This work is a collab between SIRJ (ARCH) and WOW Lab (SPH) in Sewage Overflow Events @WET_umd 🦠 💦

@UMD_MAPPD @UMDResearch #uncwaterandhealth

[Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein @RachelRoGo]

Go visit the wonderful @emmie_healey if you’re at the @UNC_Water_Inst #uncwaterandhealth conference to hear about out @WET_umd project @mdhDuBois @UMDPublicHealth @UMDResearch

[Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice Lab @sirjLab]

Our fearless leader @mdhDuBois stopped by today, and we were so happy to see him at our last lab meeting of the semester!😄 It was great to hear about what everyone has been doing during spring 2023! We are already looking forward to next year.👏💧 #urbanplanning #stormwater