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NewsBriefs: Researchers Listen to Hurricanes
Policy Briefing: Congress Considers Increasing Spending on Hurricane Research
Living the Katrina Experience
Statistics of Hurricane Waves in the Gulf of Mexico
Webinar Series Examines Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Webinar on Hurricane Katrina Free to Sections and Branches
Katrina Provokes Regret
Commentary: Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath: A Business, Personal and Professional Perspective
Hurricane Katrina: Geotechnical Observations in Biloxi, Mississippi
Looking Over Their Shoulder � Real-Time Review Following Katrina
Offshore Experiences in Recent Hurricanes
Hurricane Katrina
This chapter provides an overview of Hurricane Katrina, including data on its category, its path and intensity, and its effect on wind and water forces....
Hurricane Protection System
This chapter discusses hurricane protection systems. Topics include standard project hurricane, levees and floodwalls, datums and elevations, and interior drainage and pump stations....
Consequences
This chapter examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina, including injury, death, and financial losses....
Direct Causes of the Catastrophe
This chapter examines direct physical causes of the hurricane protection system failures, including soil strength assessments and pumping station limitations....
Contributing Factors
This chapter examines contributing factors of the hurricane protection system failures, including the underappreciated risk to New Orleans, a piecemeal implementation of the hurricane...
People: Clough to Chair National Research Council Committee on Hurricane Protection
ASCE's External Review Panel Warns Corps of Concerns over Safety of New Orleans Hurricane Protection System
Short Takes: Student Members Join Forces to Help Chapters Devastated by Hurricanes
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