A new Houston Chronicle article argues that building the so-called "Ike Dike" will put more, not less people and property at great risk, and that the best way to protect property from hazards is to keep them out of hazardous areas.
In "Forget the Ike Dike, let’s improve building methods" Texas A&M professor John Jacob says that while the current. . .
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Familiar with GIS but not sure how to use it to project coastal inundation in your community? You're in luck: a whole bunch of organizations have banded together to offer you a free class on how to do it.
The details:
When: June 29th & 30th 2010 (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Where: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Estuarine Education Center. . .
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This just in from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium:
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and its partners will host a community forum to help provide answers to the public’s questions about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The forum will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, June 2, at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and. . .
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A Florida county has released new storm surge maps, and they're giving locals a more precise idea of their risks of being hit by the storm surge associated with a hurricane. Tampa Bay Online has the whole story.
As the article reports, Hillsborough County has based the maps on revised models from the National Hurricane Center. The old maps were based on. . .
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BP has released a new image of what's going on a mile under the sea surface at the Deepwater Horizon site. Regrettably, it doesn't appear to be working as well as they'd hoped.. . .
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Reuters has an interesting article on what the oil spill means for this year's hurricane season. The short version? Nobody's sure.
On the one hand, nobody likes the idea of the a hurricane pushing the oil that's currently at sea into the Gulf's beaches (or further inland). On the other hand, some folks, including some researchers at NOAA, suggest that the. . .
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Wow. I'm going to be staring at this for a while.
Download the full-sized image here.
"Crude Awakening" (from Infographic. . .
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The Times-Picayune is reporting both comforting and frightening news this morning:
The good:
BP said early Sunday afternoon that the mile-long tube working, drawing most of the leaking oil to the tanker from the Gulf seafloor.
The not-so-good:
Researchers have found more underwater plumes of oil than they can count from the blown-out well, said. . .
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This morning's bad news comes via reports that the rate of the leak may be four or five times greater than the initially estimated 5,000 barrels a day, and may be much, much higher (84,000 barrels a day?).
For a little (disturbing) hands-on exercise, here's a widget that'll let you choose your own numbers and find the total spill volume. For reference,. . .
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After months of testing, we're extremely excited to announce the release of the newest part of the StormSmart Coasts Network: StormSmart Connect.
We built StormSmart Connect to help make it easier for coastal decision makers work together. On StormSmart Connect, you can:
Find other people in your profession from around the country (at last count. . .
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