UNIV 300i Odyssey

Hurricane Katrina

Readings (geography section)

Natural Hazards Overview

Perez, Eddie, and Thompson, Paul. 1995.

Lesson 1: Introduction to natural hazards. Natural Hazards: Causes and Effects. Madison: University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Center, Disaster Management Diploma Program http://dmc.engr.wisc.edu/courses/hazards/BB02-01.html.

Hurricanes

Bramer, Daniel; Nigg, Noah; Ting, Mingfang; Plutchak, Joel; Wojtowicz, David; and Romine, Glen. 1999.

Hurricanes: Online meteorology guide. WW2010: Weather World 2010 Project. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. Available at http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml (please read through all sections, but the "Explore a 3-D hurricane" section is optional because of the VRML software download required to run it).

Carroll, Chris. 2005.

In hot water. National Geographic (August). Available at http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/feature4/index.html.

Carroll, Chris. 2004.

Gone with the water. National Geographic (October). Available at http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html.

Optional. DeMaria, Mark. No date.

Aim a hurricane simulator. NOAA/NESDIS/ORA. A "game" designed to teach children (and the closet adult) how hurricanes respond to the general circulation of highs, lows, and wind systems at the time they form. See if you can replicate the conditions that drove Katrina into the New Orleans area. Available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/kids/movncane.htm.

Optional. COMET® Program. 2002.

Create-a-cane simulator. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. A "game" designed to teach the conditions that lead to hurricane formation in the north Atlantic. Available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/pdf/canelab.htm.

Global Warming and Hurricane Activity

Knutson, Tom. 2006.

Global warming and hurricanes. Available at http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html.

Trenberth, Kevin. 2005.

Uncertainty in hurricanes and global warming. Climate Perspectives. Science 308, 5729 (17 June): 1753-1754. Available at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/308/5729/1753.

Rivers, Floodplains, Deltas, and Wetlands

Cooper, Chad. No date.

Uniformitarianism in the Mississippi River delta: Relationships between present day landscapes and Holocene geologic history. Student paper, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University. Available at http://www.cox-internet.com/coop/deltawebpage.html.

Rogers, J. David. No date.

Should I trust that levee? Available at http://web.umr.edu/~rogersda/flood_hazards/Should%20I%20Trust%20That%20Levee.htm.

Bourne, Joel. 2000.

Louisiana's vanishing wetlands: Going, going .... Ecology News Focus. Science 289, 5486 (15 September): 1860-1863. Available at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/289/5486/1860.

Hazards Perception

Anonymous. 2006.

Risk perception. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_perception.

Risk Assessment Science and Risk Management Policy Decision-Making

Laska, Shirley. 2004.

What if Hurricane Ivan had not missed New Orleans? Natural Hazards Observer 29, 2 (November). Available at: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/nov04/nov04c.html.

Sparks, Richard E. 2006.

Rethinking, then rebuilding New Orleans. Issues in Science and Technology 22, 2 (Winter). Available at: http://www.issues.org/22.2/sparks.html.

Rodrigue, Christine M. 2006.

Katrina/Rita and risk communication within FEMA. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers conference, Chicago (9 March). Available at: https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/aag06katrina.html.

Optional, if the references to "disaster by mangement" are confusing or interesting to you: Rodrigue, Christine M. 2004.

Disaster by management: The Columbia Accident and September 11th. Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers conference, Philadelphia (17 March). Available at: https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/disbymgt/aagdisbymgt04.html.

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