Texas A&M University College of Geosciences
Texas
The tallest building on the Texas A&M campus is an oceanography building, in a town nowhere near an ocean.
The tallest building at Texas A&M is devoted to the sea and the sky. Fifteen floors of offices, classrooms and labs, named the David G. Eller Oceanography and Meteorology Building, with a Doppler weather radar system bolted to the roof. Inside are the departments of Atmospheric Sciences, Geography and Oceanography, spread across more than a hundred thousand square feet. The ocean work does not stop at the campus edge. About five miles south, on twenty acres, sits the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, which runs the Texas Automated Buoy System. That network was created by the Texas General Land Office in nineteen ninety-four, and it sends back real-time readings of surface currents and water temperature from the Gulf of Mexico. So the tallest thing in sight is a weather tower, and the readings coming into it were taken hundreds of miles away, out on open water.
This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.
At 15 floors, it is the tallest building on campus, and hosts a Doppler weather radar System on the roof.
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