MSU Faculty Research Shows California Levees' Vulnerability
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - 07:30
in Earth & Climate
With the ongoing extreme drought in California posing a threat to the state's levee systems, there is an urgent need to invest in research regarding the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure under extreme climatic events. Mississippi State University Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Farshid Vahedifard and his coauthors warn that current drought conditions pose "a great risk to an already endangered levee system" in a letter published Aug. 21 in Science magazine.