COLUMBIA, S.C., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of South Carolina's Office of News and Internal Communications has compiled a list of faculty experts, many of whom conducted research along the Southeast coast and Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, for reporters who are covering hurricane, environmental and weather-related stories.

Rain and high wind began arriving along the U.S. Gulf Coast Sunday night as Hurricane Gustav appeared set to make landfall Monday, forecasters said. At 11 p.m.

By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. May 11--Locals say the thousands of volunteers expected to pour into the area to build single-family homes this week are sorely needed, because, though it has been almost three years since Hurricane Katrina, housing is still a major issue.

By Becky Bohrer GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE, Miss. -- It's like something out of a movie: A boat filled with tourists -- drinking and happy, delighting in the exploits of the passing dolphins -- washes up to a rugged island whose exotic name conjures the mystique surrounding this place.

By John Pain Associated Press MIAMI -- Hurricane Dean was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall since record keeping began in the 1850s, based on its central atmospheric pressure, forecasters said.