NSF awards $5.3 million in 59 grants to study effects of recent hurricanes

It was August 25, and Hurricane Harvey's intensifying winds were moving onshore in South Texas, bringing torrential rains. No one yet knew that Harvey would eventually swamp Houston in flood waters. Nor that a short time later, powerful Hurricane Irma would do the same in many parts of Florida. Nor that little more than a week after Irma, Hurricane Maria would devastate Puerto Rico.
To help scientists understand how such disasters happen and how we can best respond, the National ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=243293&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click
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Source: NSF News - October 11, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news