NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey helps chart a safe course to recovery.

By Christina Wood

In the Wake of

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NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey was integral

to reopening the shipping channels and ports and restoring safe navigation after Hurricane Ike dev- astated the Gulf Coast in September 2008.

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HURRICANE IKE came

ashore near Galveston, Texas, in September 2008. The storm made U.S. landfall in the small hours of the night as a category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph and headed straight for the record books. Ac- cording to the National Hurricane Center, Ike now ranks as the fourth- costliest storm in the nation’s history. In the critical days following the storm’s devastating attack on the Gulf Coast, agencies and associa- tions rushed to provide

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