NEW YORK — After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York in 2012, city officials considered some drastic responses to storm surges, like long concrete sea walls and tall earthen berms. But as the seventh ...

Ah, October: Pumpkins, falling leaves, Halloween decorations … and hurricanes? Yes, October is still hurricane season, and there have been no shortage of destructive, deadly storms in past Octobers.

Nearly 13 years after Superstorm Sandy left a trail of destruction across Red Hook, the scars remain visible, like the glass molds at Flickinger Glass that bear the unmistakable stain of floodwaters, ...

The Capital Region and most of New York are bracing for a widespread soaking and gusty winds from a developing storm that will hit Thursday into Friday. It happens to coincide with the anniversary of ...

Several New York City hospitals remain closed a week and a half after Hurricane Sandy hit the area, raising concerns about other hospitals’ surge capacity, according to an NBC News report. NYU Langone ...

Offshore Hurricane Erin drove surge onto NC’s coast, showing how storms reach far inland. Hurricane Erin stayed far offshore, yet North Carolina felt its force. With the second-widest wind field since ...

As a coastal engineer, I study how storm surge and waves interact with natural and human-made features on the ocean floor and coast and ways to mitigate their impact. I have used physics-based models ...