NOAA, Deepwater Horizon Trustees Announce Draft Restoration Plans
333 1st Street South St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Tues., Nov. 10, 2015 6:00 PM Open House 7:00 PM Public Meeting Hilton Galveston Island Resort Crystal Ballroom 5400 Seawall Boulevard Galveston, TX 77551 Wed., Nov. 18, 2015 6:00 PM Open House 7:00 PM Public Meeting
$790,000 Grant Funds HRI Research of Sea Level Rise
tools to address this critical issue. The program is the first of its kind in Texas to forecast changes to the environment caused by sea level rise and also examine the socio-economic impacts and public policy options for living with a rising sea. Since 1908, the tide gauge at Pier 21 on Galveston Island has recorded a rise in relative sea level of about two feet. Roughly one foot of this rise is due to a global increase in ocean water volume caused by climate change with the remainder caused by local land subsidence. The amount of relative sea-level rise across the greater Houston area varies