Tag: flooding
July 13, 2026
Hydrology Professor Developing Simple Outdoor Flood Alarm to Save Lives
In the aftermath of the devastating July 4, 2025 floods that took 139 lives in Central Texas, an associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin set…
Read MoreJune 24, 2026
Jackson School Class Helped Model July 4 Storm and Found That Rainfall was Slightly Suppressed
Last fall, a group of 12 students huddled around their laptops in a dark room in the Jackson School of Geosciences building. Their screens, which…
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2022
Texas Universities Partner to Study Combined Impact of Flooding and Air Pollution in Beaumont-Port Arthur
Four Texas universities, led by The University of Texas at Austin, have been awarded a grant to establish a new research center to study the…
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2014
Hi-tech Tools Can Better Predict Droughts, Flood
In 2012, professor Zong-Liang Yang was in the Netherlands speaking at a workshop on extreme weather. It was the year after the worst recorded single-year…
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2014
How Advances in Tech and Research Could Help Battle Future Drought
UT Professor Zong-Liang Yang was at a conference on extreme weather in the Netherlands. It was 2012, just one year after the worst single-year drought in…
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