Hyongki Lee, an associate professor in the Cullen College of Engineering's Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, is the principal investigator for a grant that will hopefully lead to better flood forecasting.
With a $675,000 grant from NASA, researchers at the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering and the University of California, Irvine are launching a new flood risk assessment project focusing on sandy beaches and dunes.
Shuhab Khan, professor of geology, and his research team analyzed thousands of water and oil wells in the Houston metro area and uncovered significant rates of subsidence, or gradual sinking of the ground, in fast-growing suburbs.
With Hurricane Irma approaching Florida, UF hurricane researchers headed south on Friday to meet the storm head on, measure wind speeds and use the data to help build safer houses.
What started as a group text message between researchers at the UH Center for Public History during Hurricane Harvey could be the biggest oral history project ever undertaken at UH.