disaster relief and recovery

Texas A&M Oceanography researchers observed abnormal water conditions during regularly scheduled sampling March 23 at several sites in Galveston Bay. Toxicity data from water samples will be available after April 8.

A Texas A&M-led team is conducting is conducting research to better understand how urban residential wood-framed buildings are damaged from strong earthquakes at the world’s largest shake table in Japan to improve disaster recovery timetables.

Disaster Day, hosted by the Health Science Center, is the largest student-led interprofessional emergency response simulation in the country.

Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP) researchers will partner on a $2 million NSF grant to examine how the dynamics of planning, policies, flood control infrastructures, and the social networks affect the capacity of urban communities to recover from major flooding.