RESEARCH TOPICS AND FINDINGS INDEX

SOCIETAL

• An Assessment of the Law Enforcement Response to Hurricane Katrina
  Drs. Michael R. Smith and Jeffrey Rojek, Criminology and Criminal Justice Department
   
• Communication and Information Patterns Among New Orleans Evacuees Before, During and After Hurricane Katrina
  Dr. Susanna Priest, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies
   
• Disparities in Hurricane Katrina Evacuation: Factors Impacting African Americans’ Evacuation Response
  Dr. Keith Elder, Department of Health Services Policy and Management
   
• Health, History, and Healing Among a Displaced People: Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
  Dr. David Simmons, Department of Anthropology and Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
   
• Latinos in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: An Examination of Resiliency and Incorporation
  Dr. Elaine Lacy, Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies, Arnold School of Public Health
   
• Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Citizens: Lessons Learned from Katrina to Improve
  Readiness in Nursing Homes
  Dr. Sarah B. Laditka, Health Services Policy and Management
   
• The Nonprofit Online Response to Katrina: An Initial Assessment
  Dr. John McNutt, College of Social Work
   
• The Role of the African-American Church in Promoting Post-Catastrophe Resilience
  Drs. Andrew Billingsley and Patricia Motes, Institute for Families in Society
   

• Assessing Regional Impacts at the Population-Genetic Level in Estuarine Animals Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
  Dr. Joseph M. Quattro, Department of Biological Sciences/Marine Science Program
   
• Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Southern Mississippi Coastal Forests and Projected Post-Hurricane Responses: A Multi-scale Evaluation
  Dr. John Kupfer, Department of Geography
   
• Evaluation of the Natural Recovery and Attenuation Potential of Near-surface Soils Contaminated by Volatile Organics and Heavy Metals During Flooding & Prolonged Inundation Using Soil Air Methodology
  Dr. Douglas E. Wyatt, Jr., Department of Biology and Geology
   
• Hurricane Katrina Impacts and Responses in a Pristine Coastal Salt Marsh Estuary
  Dr. Madilyn Fletcher, Department of Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences/Marine Science/Biological Sciences
   
• Levee Breaches and Closure Procedures
  Drs. M. Hanif Chaudhry and Ahmed Kassem, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Information Technology
   
• Predicted vs. Observed Social Vulnerability of Coastal Residents: Hurricane Katrina Impacts in Mississippi and Alabama
  Drs. Susan L. Cutter and Jerry T. Mitchell, Department of Geography
   
• Risk of Mosquito-borne Disease in Coastal Mississippi in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
  Dr. Ivo M. Foppa, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
   
• Understanding Predicting Resiliency of Barrier Islands
  Dr. George Voulgaris, Department of Geological Sciences, Marine Science Program
   
• Untreated Urban Effluent Effects on Phytoplankton Community Structure and
  Function in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisana
  Dr. James L. Pinckney, Department of Marine Science Program and Department of Biological Sciences
   
• Use of Satellite Remote Sensing to Study the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
  Dr. Venkat Lakshmi, Department of Geological Sciences