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…
By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M College of Geosciences While you read this, an unmanned Wave Glider surface vehicle is riding swells alone in the Gulf of Mexico, collecting critically needed post-Hurricane Harvey water quality data. Thanks to a Texas A&M University partnership with Liquid Robotics, the Wave Glider’s…
In the midst of Hurricane Harvey, the GERG crew weathered 25-foot waves. By Leslie Lee, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences On Monday Aug. 21, as the sky dimmed in Texas and the whole country paused to watch a solar eclipse, a crew of buoy technicians from Texas…