{"id":69020,"date":"2005-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-experts-available-to-comment-on-various-aspects-of-hurricane-katrina-aftermath\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"uri-experts-available-to-comment-on-various-aspects-of-hurricane-katrina-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/09\/uri-experts-available-to-comment-on-various-aspects-of-hurricane-katrina-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 experts available to comment on various aspects of Hurricane Katrina aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 1, 2005 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 offers several experts who can provide insight and commentary on various aspects of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath:<\/p>\n


\nMass Evacuation of New Orleans \u2013 Natacha Thomas, a professor of civil engineering, is in the midst of a research project on the mass evacuation of New Orleans, focusing on the socio-economic issues involved (i.e. who gets evacuated and who gets left behind). She says New Orleans is the most vulnerable place in the country.<\/p>\n


\nHurricane Forecasting\/Intensity \u2013 Isaac Ginis, professor of oceanography, was the first scientist to recognize the important role the ocean plays in the path and intensity of hurricanes. His hurricane forecasting model has been the most accurate of the models used by the National Hurricane Center in the last two years.<\/p>\n


\nCoastal Development, Ecological Impact in Mississippi\/Alabama — Barry Costa-Pierce, director of the RI Sea Grant program, is the former director of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant program and has extensive knowledge about coastal development in the region and can discuss the ecological and economic impact of the hurricane.<\/p>\n


\nCoastal Erosion — Jon Boothroyd, professor of geology, studies coastal geology and erosion and can discuss the hurricane\u2019s impact on beaches, wetlands and the rest of the coastline and how lessons learned there can be applied in New England and elsewhere.<\/p>\n


\nStructural Safety\/Reliability \u2013 George Tsiatis and Mayrai Gindy are civil engineering professors who study the safety and reliability of bridges and other structures. They can discuss the impact the hurricane had on these structures and how to know whether a bridge or building is safe to use.<\/p>\n


\nMental Health Care – James Campbell, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Counseling Center, has extensive experience counseling victims of man-made and natural disasters, including the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, the crash of the Egypt airliner and the Mississippi River flooding. He can address the psychological impact of the hurricane devastation on victims and aid workers.<\/p>\n


\nMedia Coverage \u2013 Linda Levin, professor of journalism, can provide insight on the print, broadcast and Internet coverage of the hurricane and its aftermath.<\/p>\n


\nCoastal Hazards \u2013 The National Sea Grant Library, based at the 溏心vlog免费B站, has an online Coastal Hazards Digital Library available at http:\/\/nsgl.gso.uri.edu\/hazard.html#HUR that includes documents from around the country on hurricane preparedness, impacts, reconstruction, etc.<\/p>\n


\nTo contact any of these experts, please call the 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau at 401-874-2116.<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 1, 2005 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 offers several experts who can provide insight and commentary on various aspects of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath: Mass Evacuation of New Orleans \u2013 Natacha Thomas, a professor of civil engineering, is in the midst of a research project on the mass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}