Hurricane Ike

After Hurricane Ike struck the Houston area Sept. 13, 2008, causing $12 billion of damage in Texas alone, William Merrell, professor and chair of marine sciences at Texas A&M University Galveston, envisioned a solution to prevent…

Consider the effects of a barrier system to Houston and Galveston in light of recent hurricanes in a talk at UHCL.

In wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike in 2008, many plans have been presented for implementing a means of protection for the Texas Gulf Coast.

Nearly 45,000 people left Galveston after 2008’s Hurricane Ike devastated the island. Nearly 75 percent of the city was flooded by the storm surge and many homes still require repair before they are habitable again. All this makes the…

Hurricane Ike tore through Galveston Sept. 13, 2008, with a storm surge of 15 feet covering the island with petroleum laced salt water. Ultimately, the salt water from the storm’s surge left thousands of trees dead, including the…

The power had gone out and the sounds outside were like the sound track to a bad disaster film. My mother and I, along with three others, hadn’t evacuated very far from our home on the west end of Galveston Island; we were in Santa Fe and…

James Phillips is an artist who has been making sculptures from trees damaged by Hurricane Ike in Galveston.

The Art Alliance Center at Clear Lake, located at 2000 NASA Parkway, is currently hosting “Flotsam & Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike.”