Experts in the News

Making use of absorbent coastal prairie grasses is "a completely different way" to approach Houston flooding, said scholar Jim Blackburn. “We tend to be biased toward technological solutions and engineering solutions rather than natural solutions.”

Faculty scholar Jim Blackburn was quoted in a story highlighting Texas' underfunded, aging flood infrastructure.

A proposal for an underground tunnel to relieve Houston flooding is “one of those big dream projects that may take us away from much more reasonable short-term projects,” says Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar Jim Blackburn. “I doubt the feasibility of it.” Associated Press: https://bit.ly/2tE10ze

Jim Blackburn, Baker Institute faculty scholar, discusses the calamity that will follow a hurricane strike on the plants and refineries of Galveston Bay.