New Orleans and Hurricanes: Past, Present, and FutureTIDE-1220 Tulane University Fall Semester 2015 |
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Prof. Stephen A. Nelson Office - 208 Blessey Hall |
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Lecture NotesNote the 2 versions of each set of lecture notes are available. The first version displays quickly in a normal web browser. The PDF version is optimized for printing, but requires the Acrobat Reader. Only links with a * have been updated for the Fall 2015 semester The Science of Hurricanes* PDF Version * Why New Orleans is Vulnerable to Hurricanes - Geologic and Historical Factors PDF Version Lessons Learned and Reducing Vulnerability PDF Version The Risk to New Orleans from Hurricanes, Present, and Future PDF Version |
AssignmentsOnly links with a * have been updated for the Fall 2015 semester Exercise 1 - Hurricane Exercise* PDF Version* Due Sept.9 Exercise 2 - New Orleans Map* PDF Version* Due Sept. 16 Exercise 3- Hurricane Katrina Time Line* PDF Version* Due Oct. 14 Exercise 4 - TBA Due Nov. 4 |
Useful LinksFlash Flood - Times Picayune interactive graphic on the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina - What Happened?
Field Trip Guide Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -Final IPET report, including all volumes and supplements. Myths of Katrina: Field Notes from a Geoscientist A paper by S. A. Nelson on 5 commonly held misconceptions about Hurricane Katrina. The Katrina Myth- The Truth About a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster - A you tube video produced by Levees.org Last Chance - Times Picayune interactive graphic on coastal land loss in Louisiana,
Weather Underground - Tropical Weather
Books about the Katrina DisasterBrinkley, Douglas, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast . Harper Perennial (July 31, 2007), 768 pp. Horne, Jed, Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (July 15, 2008), 464 pp.* McQuaid, John and Mark Schleifstein, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (August 16, 2006). 384 pp.* Van Heerden, Ivor and Bryan, Mike, The Storm - What went wrong and why during Hurricane Katrina - The inside story form on Louisiana scientist. Viking Press, 2006, 308 pp.* *highly recommended |