FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Oct. 7 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: BURNSVILLE, N.C. Hurricane Helene made landfall along Florida's coastal bend as a powerful Category 4 storm before weakening to a tropical storm and continuing northward into Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. The storm brought severe flooding, strong winds, and widespread power outages, leaving many communities in dire need of assistance. The 357th Engineer Company, an U.S. Arm  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF11672) on Oct. 7, 2024, by naval affairs specialist Ronald O'Rourke. Here are excerpts: * * * Coast Guard Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) Program: Background and Issues for Congress Introduction The Coast Guard's Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) program envisages procuring 30 replacements for the Coast Guard's 35 aging river buoy tenders (WLRs), inland construction tenders (WLIC  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Oct. 11 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release: * * * DRA invests $1.5 million into three projects impacting Southern Illinois communities through States' Economic Development Assistance Program * * * The Delta Regional Authority (DRA), in collaboration with the state of Illinois, recently invested $1.5 million toward three projects in Southern Illinois through its States' Economic Development Assistance Program (SEDAP) -- one of DRA's main  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Oct. 12 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release: * * * DRA invests more than $3.6 million into nine projects impacting Mississippi communities through States' Economic Development Assistance Program * * * The Delta Regional Authority (DRA), in collaboration with the state of Mississippi, recently invested more than $3.6 million toward nine projects in Mississippi through its States' Economic Development Assistance Program (SEDAP) -- one of D  more

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct. 7 -- Estuaries and Coasts, a journal that says it focuses on ecosystems at the interface between the land and the sea, covering research on physical, chemical, geological or biological systems, as well as applications to management of those ecosystems from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2024 special issue (Vol. 47, Issue 7) entitled Current Advances in Coastal Wetland Elevation Dynamics:  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Oct. 9 (TNSres) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: Hurricane Helene has devastated swaths of Southern Appalachia, pummeling cities from Newport, Tennessee, to Asheville, North Carolina. Lives lost. Families displaced. Property destroyed. Scientists will study the storm for decades. Many are asking: What made the weather so devastating this far inland? And what comes next? Officials at East Tennessee State University, home to the State of  more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Oct. 9 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following news: As NGA St. Louis looks forward to the grand opening of a new state of the art facility in St. Louis in 2025, let's reflect upon a historical complex that the agency and its predecessors have occupied for seven decades at 3200 South 2nd Street. Locally known as the "St. Louis Arsenal" the complex has housed a defense mapping agency for over seventy years, but the history of the Arsenal and it  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 10 -- Water, a peer-reviewed open access journal on water science and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 2, 2024, edition (Vol. 16, Issue 18): * Article - A Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Resource Carrying Capacity Based on the Optimized Projection Pursuit Regression Model: A Case Study from China * Article - A Dynamic Simulation and Evaluation of the Coupling Coordination Degree of the Marine Economy-Resource-Environment Sy  more