Anna Armitage

Dr. Debbie Thomas presented Dr. Philip Matich with the award at the annual Academic Affairs Forum.

The Department of Marine Biology's Dr. Anna Armitage and the Department of Maritime Business Administration's Dr. Cassia Bomer Galvao are celebrating after being named distinguished award winners.

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced 11 grant awards totaling $341,283 to assist in the recovery of Gulf Coast scientific research efforts impacted by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

A team of researchers from the University of Houston and Florida International University, and led by Principal Investigator Dr. Anna Armitage, associate professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston, will use part of $1.7 million in grants from Texas Sea Grant to solve this mystery.

Dr. Anna Armitage is an associate professor and head of the Coastal and Wetlands Ecology Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced awards totaling more than $1.2 million to support 13 research projects throughout the Texas A&M University System whose aim is to understand the effects of natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey.

Their names are Alicia, Rita and Ike. There’s even one known by the number 1900. These and other hurricanes have killed thousands of people, destroyed scores of buildings and wreaked havoc on Texas and the nation.