Study finds fecal microbes high in New Orleans sediments following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
... According to the study authors, including Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Assistant Research Sc...Urban sediments after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita contained high levels of contaminants
... ... "Our f...Springer joins Katrina relief effort with eBooks donation worth more than $1 million
As New Orleans continues to rebuild in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Springer Science+Business Media ( ), one of the world's largest science, technology and medicine book publishers, this morning announced a donation of eBooks to seven of the city's universities. Springer announced the donation, valued at more than $1 million, at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans....Upcoming NJIT conference focuses on Hurricane Katrina, technology, more
A closer look at how people react during emergencies, the role of computers and technology and what really happened during Hurricane Katrina number among the topics to be discussed at the third annual meeting of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host the event May 14-17, 2006....... A panel focusing on Hurricane Kat...Hopkins genetics experts aid efforts to identify hurricane Katrina victims
Experts at Johns Hopkins are joining efforts to identify more than 70 bodies recovered after Hurricane Katrina, which struck last Aug. 29, killing more than 1,200 in Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of those killed have already been identified and buried by their families....... Using experience gained in DNA analysis of human remains after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Hopkins epidemi...Genetics experts join together to support efforts to identify remaining hurricane Katrina victims
A multi-institution team of experts, coordinated by geneticists from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is supporting efforts to identify more than 70 bodies still unidentified in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....... "I'm very proud of how the genetics community has joined together in this time of continuing need. It is insp...Hydrology, Politics, and Katrina: Looking Backward, and Going Forward
Hydrology, Politics, and Katrina: Looking Backward, and Going Forward... ...At this year's Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture at the National Academies, best-selling author John M. Barry of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, will reflect on his considerable knowledge and illuminate on the present and future of the Gulf coast region. Event takes place on M...Post-Katrina: Lead in disturbed soil may pose heightened health risk
Unsafe levels of lead have been found in soil and sediments left behind in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and could pose a heightened health threat to returning residents, particularly children, according to a new study published in the American Chemical Society's journal . In some soil samples collected from the area, lead levels were as much as two-thirds higher than what the U.S. Env...Media alert: Special session on the impact of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita on crops, soils, environment
MADISON, WI, OCTOBER 21, 2005 -- The United States has never experienced the devastating effects of a natural disaster like we have seen with Hurricane Katrina followed by Rita. A special session will explore the Impact and Aftermath - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Monday Nov. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Ballroom BDF of the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Experts in agronomy, wetlan...Katrina floodwaters not as toxic to humans as previously thought, study says
...... But the LSU researchers caution that the same floodwaters that were pumped back into Lake Pontchartrain contain high levels of some to...'An Eye on Katrina: Geoscience Perspectives on a Catastrophic Hurricane' at GSA Next Week
Boulder, Colo. The latest geoscience perspectives on Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of the Gulf Coast will be presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. A special two-hour session takes place Tuesday, 18 October, 3:30-5:30 p.m. MDT, in Room 250D/E of the Salt Palace Convention Center. ... ...Media representatives are encouraged to attend "An Eye on K...UNC computer, marine scientists collaborate to predict flow of toxic waters from Katrina
CHAPEL HILL -- In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, scientists and research centers from across the country came together to generate information on the contaminated floodwaters and offer it to hazardous materials experts and public health officials. ......In a matter of hours, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Marine Sciences Program and Renaissance Computing Institute (RE...$2,000 Katrina grants for New Orleans physiology students, post-docs offered through APS
BETHESDA, Md. (Sept. 9, 2005) Following disruptions by Hurricane Katrina to physiology courses of study at Tulane, LSU, Xavier and Loyola Universities in New Orleans, The American Physiological Society has pledged $50,000 in assistance to physiology graduate and post-doctoral students in the hurricane-affected area.... ...Departments with APS members most affected are at Tulane University School...DOE's Office of Science sets up program to aid scientists displaced by Hurricane Katrina
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has established a program to assist scientists displaced by the effects of Hurricane Katrina.... ..."Our colleagues in science have historically been a close-knit, generous community," wrote Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, director of DOE's Office of Science, in a letter describing the program to: universities and colleges, including those in Alabama, Lo...NIEHS launches website with information for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina
A new website with a Global Information System will provide valuable information for assessing environmental hazards caused by Hurricane Katrina. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), one of the National Institutes of Health, created the website to provide the most up-to-date data to public health and safety workers on contaminants in flood waters, infrastructure and in...Analysis of Katrina's health, environmental effects to be aided by website with layers of data
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University environmental scientists are amassing large overlays of Geographical Information System (GIS) data for a website that public health and environmental experts will use to assess effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and elsewhere in the stricken Gulf region....... That information includes "flooded areas, the locations of medical facilities, police stations, f...Can ancient rocks yield clues about catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina?
An oxygen-free ocean from bottom to surface is probably the worst scenario that marine higher life can experience. Are processes and feedbacks linking the atmosphere to the deep ocean capable to cause a rapid change from an oxygen-rich to an oxygen-free deep ocean? And what are the consequences for the global carbon cycle that ultimately drive marine and terrestrial ecosystems and climate variati...Despite having to evade hurricane Katrina, a team of scientists from Harbor Branch and other institutions is returning to port this Sunday with new tales from the deep after completing their second annual Deep Scope expedition. The group has discovered a mysterious visual capability in a deep-sea crab; captured new video of a large, recently discovered squid species; and took clear video of the w...