Hello all,
News story about research by our own NHERI RAPID center regarding Hurricane Helene (note that this was not the only research being done by members of our department – Jim Thomson and Jacob Davis (and their research collaborators) deployed buoys off the coast as well to track wave action.
Days before Hurricane Helene descended, UW researchers in the RAPID Facility traveled to Cedar Key, Florida, and Horseshoe Beach, Florida, two small coastal communities near where the hurricane was predicted to make landfall. UW researchers collaborated with people at multiple institutions to collect pre-storm data and place sensors to measure storm surge levels and wave height during Hurricane Helene’s landfall. UW News asked Michael Grilliot, the RAPID Facility’s operations manager, about the trip and why this research is important.