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…
By Lorian Hopcus, Texas A&M University College of Engineering Students in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University were recently announced as a semi-finalist team in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. The multi-national team, comprised of students and professors, is now one…