While there was precipitation for 14 straight weekends before June, rainfall has been scarce this summer, which has contributed to low water levels across the state.

Dr. Hermann Fritz, a professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, developed a levee simulator ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he became one of the most ardent critics of the federal government’s lack of preparation and response. Then he was fired for speaking out. Now 20 years later, ...

His understanding of how forces like earthquakes and waves interact with buildings and bridges transformed the fields of ...

Katrina hit New Orleans with 125 mph winds, unleashing severe flooding after levee breaches. Over 80% of the city was ...

The Pangeos Terayacht was envisioned as the largest floating structure ever built,an oceanic marvel shaped like a giant ...

DesignSafe celebrates 10 years as the leading cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering research related to natural ...

Lidar, which measures how long it takes for pulses of laser light to bounce off surfaces and return, has been used in ...

The nation’s deadliest floods put the crisis in clearer focus: In the Texas Hill Country, certain buildings on the grounds of ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic ...

They are called ‘rain bombs’ — a heavy localised downpour measuring more than 100mm/h on a steep mountainside. As global ...

The 1986 Space Shuttle disaster highlights the importance of independent research, clear data presentation, and ...