Sand dunes protect coastal community from infragravity waves during a storm. (Getty Images) By Lorian Hopcus, Texas A&M University College of Engineering While many Texans were bracing for Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in late August 2017, a team of researchers set out to deploy instrument pods along the Texas coast. The…
In this NASA handout image, Hurricane Harvey is photographed aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast on August 25, 2017. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) By Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University School of Public Health Recent years have seen rising…
Chris Ginter wades through deep floodwaters on September 6, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Houston resident Chris Ginter has been taking local residents to their flooded homes in his monster truck which can drive through waters up to 4 feet deep. Over a week after Hurricane Harvey hit Southern Texas,…
A truck of donated hay and other supplies from New Jersey is unloaded in Sour Lake, Texas. Hay and feed donations were valued at more than $1.3 million, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension economists.(Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service/Blair Fannin) By Blair Fannin, Texas A&M University College of…
An NSF RAPID research grant will help the Colleges of Engineering and Geosciences evaluate Hurricane Harvey’s impact on Texas coastal waterways. By Jennifer Reiley, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Heavy rainfall during Hurricane Harvey flushed most of the salt water out of Galveston Bay, making the bay extremely…
Researchers on the R/V Point Sur manage water sampling equipment. By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M College of Geosciences Scientists now estimate that more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey flowed into the Gulf of Mexico following the storm, and a team of researchers from Texas A&M…
Roughly 4,000 pigfish were transported to the pond in San Luis Park to replace any that may have escaped in Harvey’s storm surge. (Texas Sea Grant/Russ Miget) By Alex Hood, Texas Sea Grant It has been almost two months since Hurricane Harvey came ashore, and most of the Texas coast…
"Deep from the Heart: The One America Appeal Concert" at Reed Arena brought five presidents to Texas A&M to help raise funds for hurricane relief efforts in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By Texas A&M University Athletics The Texas A&M University and University of Texas men’s basketball programs have joined together in an effort to raise money for the Rebuild Texas Relief Fund. The Aggies and Longhorns will play an exhibition contest on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Tudor Fieldhouse on…
By Texas A&M University President Michael K. Young Dear Faculty, Staff, Students and the 500,000-strong Aggie Network: What a wonderful honor it was this weekend to help host all five living former U.S. Presidents Carter, Bush 41, Bush 43, Clinton and Obama here in College Station for the…