Yesterday, Governor Bobby Jindal met with the unified command of the emergency operation center at GOSHEP to receive an update on the state’s preparedness efforts surrounding the possible impact of Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana.

Shortly after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the U.S., Rice University civil and mechanical engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah studied damage done to offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

With Tropical Storm Gustav gaining force in the Gulf of Mexico, Rice University officials and Facilities, Engineering and Planning staff will be preparing the campus this weekend for potential hurricane conditions.

Now is not the time for a party. Tropical Storm Gustav has already wreaked devastation across the Caribbean. Projected to turn once more into a powerful hurricane, it now threatens a huge swath of the United States - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida.

Hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars could potentially be saved if emergency managers could make better and more timely critical decisions when faced with an approaching hurricane. Now, an MIT graduate student has developed a computer model that could help do just that.

Tropical storm Gustav has increased in strength and has been upgraded to a hurricane. The path of Gustav goes over Haiti.

If you need help on viewing the path of Tropical Storm Fay these three Google Maps should be able to help. All three sites are tracking Tropical Storm Fay and are

University of Florida officials are monitoring Tropical Storm Fay and the path of the hurricane. Plans currently call for UF work activities to remain on a normal schedule. Should the forecast conditions for the Gainesville area worsen, new information will be posted here.

In light of Cyclone Larry and Cyclone Monica, Austral Ecology has launched a special issue spotlighting tropical cyclones and northern Australian ecosystems.

When Tropical Storm Gaston hit Richmond, Va., in August 2004, its notable abundance of small and mid-sized raindrops created torrential rains that led to unexpected flash flooding throughout the city and its suburbs.

Every year, storms over West Africa disturb millions of tons of dust and strong winds carry those particles into the skies over the Atlantic. According to a recent study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientists, this dust from Africa directly affects ocean temperature, a key ingredient in Atlantic hurricane development.

The link between changes in the temperature of the sea’s surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity has been quantified for the first time. The research - carried out by scientists at UCL (University College London) and due to be published in Nature on January 31 - shows that a 0.5°C increase in sea surface temperature can be associated with a ~40 per cent increase in hurricane activity.