University of Miami receives stimulus funds for study of hurricane impacts on structures, ecosystems

... structures withstand -- or fail to withstand a hurricane could lead to improved construction standards and ... surge simulator capable of generating hurricane force winds in a 3D test environment. The ... and emergency response planners throughout the hurricane season. In a truly interdisciplinary manner, ...

UH team analyzes Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination

... offer important information about the effects of hurricane Ike on pollution levels and help regulators ... opportunity this year to study the effect of hurricane Ike on these pollutants, particularly in the ... that many outdated transformers were ruined by hurricane Ike. In July 2008, the Texas Department of ...

Coral face 'a stormy future'

... Crabbe. Tobago lies outside the main Caribbean hurricane belt and therefore is more typical of the ... relationship between global warming and rising hurricane intensity as well as frequency," Jennie explains. ... of high sea surface temperatures (SSTs), and hurricane winds are strengthened by warm surface waters." ...

Story tips from the Departments of Energy's Oak Ridge National Lab -- March 2009

... Laboratory study of structural damage from hurricane Ike in 2008 shows that buildings with large ... as garages and loading docks are more prone to hurricane damage -- even if the structure's construction ... Committee on Weather Issues on damages from hurricane Ike. According to the report, set for release ...

Dune and dirty: Hurricane teaches lessons through ecosystem research

... projects on Galveston Island when the 2008 hurricane season began in June 2008. Then he got ... ... projects on Galveston Island when the 2008 hurricane season began. Then he got an unexpected visit ... had studied were destroyed or severely damaged by hurricane Ike, which struck Galveston Sept. 13. But with ...

Innovations in Pediatric Medicine International Conference brings together pediatrics experts

... during disasters and the lessons learned from hurricane Marilyn on St. Thomas; the 2001 attack on the ... New York; the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran; and hurricane Katrina. "Medical breakthroughs have greatly ... in disasters. He will share lessons learned from hurricane Marilyn on St. Thomas; the 2001 attack on the ...

APS sets aside $50,000 to help students, post-docs, in wake of Hurricane Ike

... Physiological Society has established the hurricane Ike Relief Fund to provide unrestricted grants of ... fellows who suffered losses as a result of hurricane Ike. The powerful storm hit the Texas coast on ... The APS provided similar grants in the wake of hurricane Katrina in 2005, distributing more than $80,000 ...

Earth scientists keep an eye on Texas

... issues. Local Issues Addressed, Including hurricane Ike Dozens of papers will focus on local ... previously unreleased data and imagery of hurricane Ike from the U.S. Geological Survey. "Preliminary Data from the Impact of hurricane Ike on Texas & Louisiana" will be presented on ...

Stevens strengthens Dominican Republic's Early Warning System for Inundations

... meeting in the DR during which the topic of vast hurricane devastation came up. Dr. Raveche offered his help ... and November of 2007, which took place during hurricane off-season, DR wanted to improve the method of ... ability to detect hurricanes on time, even during hurricane off-season and all year long. As accuracy in ...

Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA's Envisat

... Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ... the Earth simultaneously, the top and bottom of a hurricane can be viewed at the same time. The unique view of hurricane Ike on the left is an example of combined optical ...

Hurricane Gustav

... The development and path of hurricane Gustav is shown via a sequence of satellite ... eye feature (visible), causing the U.S. National hurricane Center to designate it Tropical Depression Seven. ... following morning, Gustav had strengthened into a hurricane with winds reaching 150 km per hour. ...

2007 hurricane forecasts took blow from winds and Saharan dry, dusty air

... contributor to the quieter-than-expected 2007 hurricane season. Factors known to influence the number ... they are from NASA] for an above-average 2007 hurricane season. However, the season, which runs from June ... dust in shattering predictions for the 2006 hurricane season, and has implications for more accurate ...

Climate's remote control on hurricanes

... surface temperature, may have a larger effect on hurricane activity than the more uniform patterns of global ... oceans provide a more favorable environment for hurricane development and intensification. However, several ... As we try to understand the future changes in hurricane intensity, we must look beyond changes in ...

Soil, conservation experts to reflect on Hurricane Katrina disaster

... Two years after hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and parts of the ... Thursday, Nov. 8 from 8 to 10 am (room 207). hurricane Katrina provided the scientific community with an ... Nov. 8, the symposium will take a broader look at hurricane patterns over the years, global climate change ...

The University of Miami receives grants from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s Ocean Fund

... to better understand phenomena like the Gulf Stream, climate change, hurricane formation and the potential impacts of the ocean on human health. The ... to conduct critical research in climate change, coral reefs, fisheries, hurricane and monsoon mechanics, ocean and atmospheric circulation, computer ...

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... and accompanying fluid flow in the footwall of a normal fault: The hurricane fault at Pah Tempe hot springs, Washington County, Utah Stephen T. ... and deep circulation has been enabled by fractures associated with the hurricane Fault, a major active structure near the western margin of the Colorado ...

Satellites helping aid workers in Honduras

... flooded. The flooding is being compared to the devastation left by hurricane Mitch, which killed about 6 000 people when it ripped through Honduras a ... claimed more than 10 000 lives across Central America. In the wake of hurricane Mitch, ESA, CNES and Spot Image worked to provide rapid and accurate ...

Weather woes emphasize need for SSPEED

... we've got the data to prove it." Bill Read, director of the National hurricane Center and former director of the Houston/Galveston forecast office of the ... the rise of sea levels. Several sessions will address the impact of hurricane Ike. The first panel, titled "Lessons Learned," will include Harris County ...

New studies find global warming will have significant economic impacts on Florida coasts

... and Analysis at FSU. "Should, as many models predict, sea level rise, and hurricane strength and other factors become more extreme, much greater economic ... and sea level rise on future damage costs, finding that if a storm like hurricane Wilma from 2005 occurred in 2080, the cost to Dade alone would be from 12 ...

NTDs burden in Latin America and the Caribbean may exceed that of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria

... to invest in efforts to help the people of Haiti who were devastated by hurricane Ike by combating NTDs like lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted ... that are widespread in the country. After rainfall-induced disasters like hurricane Ike, respiratory and intestinal infections usually increase and there is ...

Building a stronger roof over your head: '3 little pigs' project begins first tests

... LONDON, ON With hurricane season upon us, many wonder if the roof over their heads will hold firm in ... to pressures that simulate the effects of winds as strong as a Category 5 hurricane or 200 mph all within a controlled environment. Researchers at the ...

NJIT architect professor advocates best-building practices for high wind regions

... with guidelines and recommendations for better design and construction in hurricane and earthquake prone areas. "Certain home shapes and roof types can ... walls with nails, not staples. Stapled roofs were banned in Florida after hurricane Andrew. Aim for strong connections between the structure and ....

Fungi the cause of many outbreaks of disease but mostly ignored

... contamination and human health in New Orleans and other areas flooded by hurricane Katrina. Natural disasters like hurricane Katrina provide natural laboratories for understanding how fungi respond ...

USGS science picks -- leads, feeds and story seeds

... production data reflect the U.S. economic slowdown, and the start of hurricane season. If you would like to receive Science Picks via e-mail, would like ... Hurricanes: The Season is Here June 1 marks the start of this year's hurricane season and the USGS has science that weathers the storm. More than half of ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 26, 2008

... Regional Research Center (SRRC) in New Orleans. After recovery from hurricane Katrinas devastation, SRRC is continuing a 66-year heritage of discovery. ... recovery efforts in the region prior to the June 1 start of the 2008 hurricane season. Media should click here ( ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 19, 2008

... Regional Research Center (SRRC) in New Orleans. After recovery from hurricane Katrinas devastation, SRRC is continuing a 66-year heritage of discovery. ... recovery efforts in the region prior to the June 1 start of the 2008 hurricane season. Media should click here ( ...

NOAA science story tips -- AAAS 2008 edition

... During April, NOAAs Earth System Research Laboratory will fly an off-duty hurricane Hunter aircraft out of Fairbanks, Alaska, to observe the Arctic ... normal in the Southeast and cooler than normal in the Northwest. NOAA hurricane Hunter Flies Into Pacific Winter Storms Jeanne Kouhestani, NOAA Office of ...

Environmental exodus

... areas migrated to. In the aftermath of environmental disasters such as hurricane Katrina in the US, Rafael Reuveny from Indiana University in the US looks ... studies the US Dust Bowl in the 1930s; Bangladesh since the 1950s; and hurricane Katrina in 2005 shows that although climate change can spur large ...

Acoustics World Wide press room now open

... http://www.acoustics.org/press/154th/collins.html LISTENING TO hurricane KATRINA A hurricane produces naturally occurring low-pitch infrasound that humans are unable ...

Food and environmental sustainability focus of ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meetings

... What was the impact of hurricane Katrina on soil quality and agriculture? How can soil help lessen the ... State University; and several other speakers will review the impacts of hurricane Katrina on soil and agriculture in coastal Louisiana. ...

ORNL 'resilience' plan to help Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina communities beat disaster

... And, of course, Gulfport is currently in the process of recovering from hurricane Katrina with a strong commitment to becoming an even more resilient community in the event of future storms. Charleston has significant hurricane and earthquake threats. Having made great strides in resilience planning, ...

Salt marshes: A natural and unnatural history

... by taking the brunt of storm waves and flood waters. In recent years, the world has begun to see the importance of wetlands. In August 2005, hurricane Katrina produced a catastrophe in New Orleans in part because of the loss of tidal wetlands and in Sri Lanka in December 2004, the Indian Ocean ...

LSUHSC research helps link schizophrenia to specific DNA region

... and Erich Conrad, MD, LSUHSC Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, as well as Sherri Chalona, completed the work while evacuated from New Orleans after hurricane Katrina to LSUHSC's temporary campuses in Baton Rouge. The research was supported by funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the ...

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home

... Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. Now researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have found a novel and ...

Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day

... habitat builders in Florida and the Caribbean, staghorn coral and elkhorn coral suffered severe population declines due to coral bleaching, diseases, hurricane damage, and other threats. Both corals were designated as threatened species under the authority of the Endangered Species Act in 2006. With the ...

Pediatric carbon monoxide poisoning linked to video games after Hurricane Ike

... Hours after hurricane Ike roared ashore in Texas, more than two million homes were without power, which left some scrambling to preserve food and others looking for ways ...

River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes, Texas A&M prof says

... that can provide data on past changes in nitrogen application in the drainage basin from agricultural fertilizers, records of past flooding and hurricane events, to name a few, Bianchi says. Their work is published in the current issue of the " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ." ...

River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes, Texas A&M prof says

... that can provide data on past changes in nitrogen application in the drainage basin from agricultural fertilizers, records of past flooding and hurricane events, to name a few, Bianchi says. Their work is published in the current issue of the " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ." ...

Indigenous peoples at world summit to share climate change observations, coping techniques

... food sources as required. Among new Indigenous climate change adaptation efforts to be presented at the Summit: Honduras: With increasing hurricane strikes and drastic weather changes, the Quezungal people have developed a farming method which involves planting crops under trees so the roots ...

'Freaks' help scientist unravel nature and nurture

... neuroscience in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "Asking whether something is more nature or more nurture is like asking whether a hurricane is more wind or rain. It's both -- always both." Blumberg's book is written for a general audience, but his ideas are creating a buzz in the ...