People use boats to help bring items out of homes in an area where a mandatory evacuation is still under effect after flood water inundated them after torrential rains caused widespread flooding during Hurricane and Tropical Storm Harvey on September 3, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)…
Volunteers put in wetland plants at one of the project’s water detention ponds. The project’s five detention ponds will help protect area homes from flooding. (Jerry Hamby/Exploration Green Conservancy) By Paul Schattenberg, Texas A&M University Marketing & Communications The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, working in collaboration with area residents,…
Ecologist takes samples of soil in the territory contaminated with export and dump garbage. (Texas A&M University Health Science Center) By Rae Lynn Mitchell, Texas A&M University School of Public Health When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, homes were obliterated and floodwaters were left everywhere near its impact, with…
By Taylor Fuechec, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Just 8 years after moving to Houston from Trinidad and Tobago, the “twin-island” nation just off the coast of Venezuela, geophysics major Kalain Hosein is set to walk the graduation stage at Texas A&M University. Moving to Houston helped spike Hosein’s…
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…
It is important to understand how disasters affect mental health because effective preparedness for and response to disaster requires dedicated resources for mental trauma.
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…