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Forecasters predicting 17 named storms in Atlantic this hurricane season

Experts from Rice are available to speak with the media about hurricane and storm-related topics.

Blue carbon project will create a living shoreline to protect coastal ecosystems in Galveston Bay

Rice, BCarbon and Scenic Galveston have launched an innovative project to protect the Kohfeldt Marsh near Texas City from sea level rise through the design and creation of a living shoreline.

Alumna Carol Haddock brings decades of leadership and public service experience to Rice

Carol Haddock ’91 has carved a remarkable path in civil engineering. Now, as a professor-in-the-practice of civil and environmental engineering at Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing, she is imparting her hard-earned knowledge to the next generation of engineers.

Rice-led research will leverage responsible AI to enhance coastal communities’ severe storm response

A team of Rice engineers and partners won a $1.5 million NSF award for a project that leverages responsible AI to enhance emergency response to coastal compound hazard events.

SSPEED Center, Rice Engineering to launch nature-based carbon credit research projects

The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center and the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice have announced plans to launch two research projects on nature-based carbon credits funded through a gift from Emissions Reduction Corp.

Annual SSPEED Center conference welcomes international flood-control experts

The Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center at Rice hosted its 11th annual conference last month at the university’s Anderson-Clarke Center.

NSF-funded Rice study to examine how collaborative community design can mitigate severe storm impacts

A new National Science Foundation-funded study by Rice University will examine whether design strategies aimed at improving civic engagement in stormwater infrastructure could help reduce catastrophic flooding.

SSPEED-hosted demo featured water-inflatable flood barriers

Large, water-inflatable barriers were featured in a March 7 demonstration of flood-defense technologies hosted by Rice’s SSPEED Center.

Rice experts available to discuss 5th anniversary of Harvey

As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey approaches, Rice University experts are available to discuss the storm’s ongoing impact.

City, county and port support Galveston Bay Park study

Houston, Harris County, Port Houston and entrepreneur Joe Swinbank have chipped in for an engineering study of Galveston Bay Park, a chain of man-made islands that Rice University experts have proposed building as both a hurricane barrier and a 10,000-acre public park.

SSPEED Center’s post-Harvey conference draws more than 150

More than 150 people attended the SSPEED Center’s April 28-29 conference on on “Post-Harvey Climate and Flood Impacts on the Built Environment.”

Rice hosts Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference

Rice hosted the 31st annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists from March 30 to April 3.

Environmental champions win Rice grants

The Rice University Sustainable Futures Fund backs six projects to help bolster the planet’s environmental health.

Rice conference on natural disasters draws international panelists, attendees

The Nov. 19-20 conference focused on narratives around natural catastrophes in the Americas and Circum-Caribbean

National Academies Gulf Scholars Program launches at Rice

A new National Academies Gulf Research Program will expand the opportunities Rice students have to study and impact the most pressing environmental, health, energy and infrastructure challenges in the Gulf of Mexico region.