A coast, a calling and the search for common ground
February 05, 2026
February 05, 2026
HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 5 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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A coast, a calling and the search for common ground
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On the Texas coast, Jim Blackburn slips into his kayak the way some people step into a sanctuary.
Water folds around the hull. Birds settle back into the marsh. The shoreline opens -beautiful, fragile and increasingly tied to the future of Texas' economy as much as its ecology. In " Cal . . .
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A coast, a calling and the search for common ground
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On the Texas coast, Jim Blackburn slips into his kayak the way some people step into a sanctuary.
Water folds around the hull. Birds settle back into the marsh. The shoreline opens -beautiful, fragile and increasingly tied to the future of Texas' economy as much as its ecology. In " Cal . . .