HRI Community Resilience Group

08/12/2026

Join us tomorrow for this free event! Register below.

Please join us at the Community Center of Aransas County on August 13 for an honest conversation about Living Shorelines! Please register: https://bit.ly/4bpodKT for this free event. Refreshments are provided.

08/12/2026

08/12/2026

The Human Benefits of Nature Cross-Team recently completed a project with The Water Institute exploring how marsh restoration projects might make flood insurance more affordable. The project team, which also included Moffatt & Nichol and Munich Re, Group, worked on Dauphin Island, AL. They calculated: 1) how much the marsh lowers water levels during high tides and storms and 2) the amount this lowers flood risk for nearby homes. This project is an important first step in connecting marsh restoration with flood risk reduction, potentially leading to lower insurance costs over time.

This project was supported by the Gulf of America Alliance through a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management.

07/27/2026

Need great excuse for dinner this Wednesday? Join Texas Children in Nature on July 29th from 5-8pm at Jason's Deli on Airline in Corpus Christi! Make sure to mention TCiN with your purchase!

07/21/2026

See y'all around town!!

Come visit the Community Resilience Group’s Masters Student, Ryce, around Corpus Christi for some FREE bird fun and activities, learn more about the Colony Island Network Design & Implementation (CINDI) project, and take our community survey!
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Event: STEM Day Bay Day 2026⁠
Date: July 25th ⁠
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm⁠
Location: Corpus Christi Museum of Science & History ⁠
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Event: Shark Week Watch Party⁠
Date: July 28th ⁠
Time: 6:00-9:00pm⁠
Location: Brewster Street Icehouse Downtown⁠
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We hope to see you there!

07/15/2026

Share your perspective with Texas Sea Grant!

It's time to update Texas Sea Grant's strategic plan, and we want to hear input from our partners and communities! ⁠
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Your perspective is essential to helping us better understand current challenges, emerging issues, and opportunities across coastal communities, natural resource management, workforce development, and education. This input will help ensure our future work remains responsive, relevant, and aligned with the needs of the communities and industries we serve.⁠
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Whether you live, work, or spend time along the Texas coast, we invite you to complete our anonymous strategic planning survey.⁠
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Take the survey here: tx.ag/TXSGStratPlanSurvey26

06/30/2026

Excited to share these resources with each of you!
Let us know what you think or if you have questions.

Did you miss the Carbon Capture Information Webinar earlier this month? It is now available via YouTube and through the newly released “Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS): Facts & Data Sources” resource tool. The page is dedicated to providing resources to the Coastal Bend Community and the webinar featured a panel of scientists answering questions about CCS technology, efficacy, and need.⁠
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Lastly, through GeoRED (www.geored.org), we have highlights of data associated with CCS via a map view! ⁠
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Check out each of these resources below! ⁠
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1.) Webinar: https://youtu.be/kiQUTvXpsCw ⁠
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2.) Resource Page: Carbon Capture & Storage: Facts and Data Sources:⁠ https://arcg.is/1qvS5O2
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3.) Map Viewer: Launch GeoRED :⁠
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/f23bc86ac0024c4593376b290d2dc0b3/page/GeoRED-Experience?dlg=Window---Scenario---Carbon-Capture-and-Storage-Activity&views=ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT

06/12/2026

Five local 911 call centers lost internet during Thursday's Spectrum outage, but officials say emergency calls were rerouted and answered without interruption.

06/12/2026

Our Ph.D. candidate Ulsia Urrea Marino will be defending her dissertation “Building Urban Resilience to Climate Change with Climate-Driven Actions: A Comparative Case Study Using Mixed Methods in the Gulf” on Monday, June 15, 2026 at 1:00pm.

Join us in person at the Harte Research Institute Room 127 at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi or online via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/kji-ovqu-pyc

06/05/2026

In coordination with the Texas Louisiana Carbon Management Community, we are hosting a virtual information session in ONE WEEK on June 11 from 6–8 p.m. to discuss how carbon capture could impact the Coastal Bend.
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Join us to learn more!
Registration is required for this session.⁠
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Click the link below to register:⁠ https://tamucc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SR-cgrROSKi0ZmefIEDhRg?fm=wc&_x_zm_rtaid=iSIr7O_LTM6vDscW #/registration