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Researchers at Rice University found that had Ike struck slightly farther west on Galveston Island, it would have inundated scores of chemical plants and refineries. Ike would have shut down the source of 40 percent of the nation's jet fuel, 27 percent of its gasoline and 42 percent of its chemical feed stocks.

To protect industry and residents from another Ike, or worse, several storm-surge protection efforts are underway, including the well-known Ike Dike concept.(read more..)

The destruction brought by Hurricane Ike in 2008 focused attention on the need for storm surge protection for the Galveston-Houston area.

SAN ANTONIO, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Dutch Delta Program Commissioner, whose work to prevent flooding created notice in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, won the 2013 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences at a banquet sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in San Antonio tonight.

The Dutch Delta Program Commissioner, whose work to prevent flooding created notice in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, won the 2013 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Read more…)

The ‘Economically Efficient Flood Standards to Protect the Netherlands against Flooding’ project, which calculated the optimal design for Dutch dikes, has won the prestigious Franz Edelman Award in Texas.

Deltares came in ahead of five other finalists, including Baosteel, Chevron, Dell, Kroger and McKesson.(Read more..)

Dutch-American Ties Support nearly 680,000 Jobs in the United States; A 9% Increase from 2010. Texas Leads the Nation in Job Creation from Dutch-US Economic Ties with 98,271 jobs.

A new report by the Royal Netherlands Embassy shows the continuing strength of the economic ties between the United States and the Netherlands supported nearly 680,000 American jobs in 2011, an increase of 9 percent from the previous year. (Read more…)

They will meet with their American counterparts to exchange information and explore opportunities for collaboration between the Netherlands and the United States as well as engage US stakeholders in their post-Sandy resilience agenda.

Dutch experts from the fields of smart grids, cyber security and infrastructure resilience will visit the United
States from Feb. 24 through March 1. (Read more….)