Tag: floods
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Q&A: How does flooding impact water quality monitoring?
Texans are no strangers to severe weather events. Each year brings its challenges of potential droughts, fires, hurricanes, flash floods and more. A heavy rain season brings additional challenges to the water team at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) and their monthly routine water quality sampling visits to water bodies around Texas. We talked…
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What is ecohydrology?
Article originally written by Kerry Halladay Just like water touches all parts of life, ecohydrology is a discipline that overlaps a plethora of other fields to better understand how water interacts with the soil, the Earth and living things. Dr. Brad Wilcox, professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, likened ecohydrology to…
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Report outlines tools for mitigating flood impacts along Texas coast
The Texas A&M University School of Law recently published a report on legal mechanisms and tools for responding to the impacts of recent and future flooding events resulting from storm events and sea level rise. The report, Legal Mechanisms for Mitigating Flood Impacts in Texas Coastal Communities, was published by students in the Natural Resources Systems Capstone Seminar.…
