More than 150 attendees gathered for the SSPEED Center's 10th Conference, "Post-Harvey Climate and Flood Impacts on the Built Environment "at the Rice Glasscock School of Continuing Studies. Over the two-day conference, over 30 top academic, consulting and governmental experts presented on a wide variety of topics, including Urban Design & Policy for Flood Protection, Climate Change and Recent Storms, Impact of the Big Freeze and Energy Systems, COVID in the Environment, and Institute for Disaster Resilient Texas. We have heard a lot of good feedback on the success of the conference and we look forward to regathering in the fall of 2023. Learn more here.

SSPEED and TU Delft Masters students meet for technical exchange and an overview of SSPEED's Galveston Bay Park Plan

Rice University’s Phil Bedient has been awarded the American Institute of Hydrology's Ray K. Linsley Award in honor of outstanding contributions in surface water hydrology.

Early-warning system covers hospitals, nursing homes, other critical facilities on Brays, Sims, Hunting and White Oak bayous

Dr. Bedient presents Coastal Surge Protection: Galveston Bay Park Plan at Engineering Change Lab's Summit 8.

Dr. Bedient presents Coastal Surge Protection: Galveston Bay Park Plan at Engineering Change Lab's Summit 8.

​Dr. Bedient presents Flooding in Houston under Climate Threats at Houston Global Health Collaborative's 8th Annual Conference at Houston Methodist.

Congratulations to SSPEED’s former Postdoctoral Researcher, Antonia Sebastian. Dr. Sebastian recently joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor of Flood Resilience in the Department of Geological Sciences, and is joint appointed within the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P). 

Four SSPEED posters were presented at AGU's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. Fall Meeting is the largest international Earth and space science meeting in the world.

Bedient was named Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair in July 2019 and will serve through 2022. He joined Rice Faculty in 1975 and previously served as Department Chair from 1992-1999.