Taira Baldauf (second from right), a hydraulic engineers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Galveston District, speaks with members of the International Network for Storm Surge Barriers, or I-STORM, and the Dutch water management agency Rijkswaterstaat. I-STORM is a knowledge sharing network of countries and entities that manage storm surge barriers. Baldauf recently traveled to the Netherlands to learn how the Dutch design operate, maintain, and manage storm surge barriers.