Texas A&M-Galveston professor Jay Rooker will lead a $1.9 million effort to learn more about the Flower Garden Banks and the fish that inhabit the marine sanctuary.
Awarded nearly $800,000 in research funding, Colleen Petrik will co-lead a NOAA task force studying global fish populations in changing ocean environments.
The program is operated by the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and includes a multi-university collaboration. Texas A&M meteorology students will help NOAA collect important atmospheric sciences data, which includes studying the origins of rotation in tornadoes. (College of Geosciences) For the next six months, when severe weather strikes at universities across the Southeast United States, meteorology students will be helping NOAA collect important atmospheric…
A corn crop failed to mature in a field July 28, 2011 near Perryton, Texas. A severe drought caused most dry-land (non-irrigated) crops in the area to fail and forced farmers to abandon some fields in order to conserve their limited resources. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) By Leslie Lee, Texas…