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Geotimes February 2006 Robert S. Young	The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves.
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 William Sweet	Protecting The Big Easy From The Next Big One U.S. Army engineers face New Orleans's dilemma.
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Geotimes November 2003 James C. Gibeaut	LIDAR: Mapping a Shoreline by Laser Light The days of collecting beach profile data solely in the field are gone. Now coastal geologists are looking to the skies, using a new radar tool to study changes to the shoreline over large areas.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Wilson & Kliger	Learning From Katrina Hurricane Katrina can teach engineers a lot about the unintended impact of technology as well as what can be done to prepare for the next catastrophe.
Geotimes September 2005 Naomi Lubick	Water Covers New Orleans As Hurricane Katrina dissipated on its way toward the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the threat only grew for this and other Gulf towns. Monday afternoon's seeming reprieve in New Orleans evaporated as two breached levees flooded the city.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Louisiana's Marshland Mess Even before the past season's devastating hurricanes, Louisiana's wetlands were in rough shape. More than a century of building dams, levees and canals to control the Mississippi River changed the wetlands, limiting sediment and leading to soil compaction from the loss of vegetation.
Popular Mechanics March 2006	Now What? The lessons of Katrina
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Geotimes October 2007 Jim Gibeaut	Coastal Development: The Galveston Case, Part I Even following the disastrous 2005 hurricane season, barrier islands remain under increasing pressure from development in Texas and elsewhere.
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick	Hurricane Katrina Hits Hard One of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Camille in 1969, Hurricane Katrina left a trail of devastation behind it as it touched down in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Popular Mechanics June 21, 2007 Jancy Langley	Army Corps Turns to Google for Post-Katrina Answers in N.O. An important new report on the strength of levees on the Bayou turns up a tech-savvy feature: interactive maps.
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Insurance & Technology August 31, 2009 Nathan Conz	Hurricane Jimena Strengthened to Category 4 Storm Hurricane Jimena is forecast to make landfall within the next two days.
Wired September 22, 2008 Jeff Howe	Get Ready for Extreme Weather Robert Dalrymple, a coastal engineer at Johns Hopkins University, warns that the nation is woefully unprepared for natural disaster. Here is his three-point plan to prepare for the coming era of mayhem.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Chris Dixon	Re-engineering America's Beaches, 1 Tax Dollar at a Time Pumping sediment onto the nation's beaches is an expensive fix for the erosion caused by coastal development and often a bad fix at that.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Wilson & Keliger	Flood or Hurricane Protection?: The New Orleans Levee System and Hurricane Katrina Why was the New Orleans levee system so vulnerable to failure in Hurricane Katrina?
Popular Mechanics December 2005 Benjamin Chertoff	Katrina Images Pictures of New Orleans, southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast during an intensive examination of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
IDB America April 2008 Dan Drosdoff	Barbados Priority: Protecting the Coastline Improvements and investments have succeeded in stabilizing the Barbados coastline, but the rehabilitation and shoreline protection process is continuous, and the possibilities of setbacks are a constant menace.
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Commerce Dept. Seeks Data on Industries Affected by Katrina The defense industry is reporting specific production or supply problems resulting from recent hurricanes. Of particular concern is the damage to liquid hydrogen plants, which could affect defense suppliers in the space and munitions sectors.
Science News July 31, 2004	Hurricane Season The U.S. Geological Survey offers a Web site devoted to the impact of hurricanes and extreme storms on coastal regions of the United States.
Wired December 22, 2008 David Wolman	Before the Levees Break: A Plan to Save the Netherlands Global warming is a cause for serious concern in low-lying countries. The Dutch aren't waiting for a catastrophe; they're taking measures to solve the problem now.
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Scientific American February 2006 Mark Fischetti	Into the Breach The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) inspection team observed a number of different failure mechanisms that led to dozens of breaches throughout the levee system of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
Insurance & Technology August 19, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Hurricane Bill Now Category 4, Expected to Miss U.S., Bermuda Latest forecasts indicate that neither the U.S. or Bermuda likely to be affected by Hurricane Bill, though Nova Scotia could feel the effects of the storm early next week, according to some scenarios.
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Tekla S. Perry	Hurricane Watchers Hit Their Mark Hurricane Katrina, despite the tremendous problems with the evacuation of New Orleans, provided a vivid example of today's more skillful hurricane predicting.
InternetNews November 18, 2009	Missing Hard Drive Exposes Soldiers' Data The U.S. Army said a hard drive was either lost or stolen earlier this month, putting more than 60,000 soldiers' data at risk.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2006 Tim Hanson	Back in Business, Better Than Before A look at how one regional bank is recovering from Hurricane Katrina. Interested investors should be aware that much of that growth has already been priced into Hancock Bank's stock.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	ITT to Modernize Sweden's Air Defense Radar Engineers at ITT will to upgrade the Swedish Defence Material Administration's PS-870 coastal/gapfiller radar systems.
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick	Global Climate Affects Storms? Experts caution that drawing a direct link between climate change and hurricane behavior is not yet possible, and that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation may have more of an impact on storm intensity and occurrence.
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Otis Port	Herding Hurricanes It can't be done yet, but one scientist's computer simulations point the way to tempering fierce weather in the future.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2005 Bill Mann	Insurance Disaster Scenario: Meet Stan Insurance companies that made it through the storm of the century intact might not survive a second blow. It's one area of investment where gambling on marginal players carries substantially higher levels of risk.
Insurance & Technology August 30, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell	Hurricane Earl to Intensify to Category Three Hurricane Insurers are watching the storm, which will strike the Virgin Islands later today and has the potential to affect the U.S. mainland, with North Carolina at greatest risk.
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2005 Marydee Ojala	Natural Disasters and Their Online Implications Real-time information was available for Hurricane Katrina in ways it wasn't for past disasters because of the rise of information sources and blogging on the Internet. However, there are still ways for the technology to grow.
Geotimes November 2005 Megan Sever	The Increasing Costs of U.S. Natural Disasters Population trends, mitigation efforts and federal disaster relief policies all contribute to encouraging high-risk land use and ultimately to making our society more vulnerable to the costs of natural disasters.
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Peter Heller	The Mississippi River Flood and the Katrina Risk New Orleans and Baton Rouge are one breached levee away from Katrina-like devastation. Can the Army Corps of Engineers save them?
InternetNews August 29, 2005 Paul Shread	Stocks Stage Reversal Tech stocks led the way higher Monday after Hurricane Katrina appeared to do less damage than feared.
Geotimes September 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Rita: Could Have Been Worse The Category-3 storm was not nearly as devastating as Hurricane Katrina, but damage from wind, fire and flooding still prevent some residents from returning to their homes and businesses.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006	Does NASA Need A Better Launch Site? It is unlikely that NASA will ever willingly relocate from Kennedy to somewhere like the Mojave -- if nothing else, there is simply too much infrastructure, aging though it is, which the agency can't afford to replace with its normal operating budgets.
Geotimes February 2007 Richard J. Murnane	Science, Catastrophe Risk Models and Insurance An appreciation of how scientific research is used in the insurance industry's catastrophe risk models provides some insight on the relationship between geoscience and insurance.
Insurance & Technology January 14, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Pacific Northwest Storm Challenges Insurers The geographical breadth of December 2007's Pacific Northwest storm challenged insurers' catastrophe management teams to anticipate claimants' needs.
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InternetNews September 23, 2005 Tim Gray	Hurricane Rita Stirs up Scammers Storm likely to be a fertile breeding ground for phishers.
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OCC Bulletin February 3, 2006 Emory W. Rushton	Hurricane Katrina: Guidance to Examiners This issuance transmits guidance regarding supervisory practices to be followed in assessing the financial condition of financial institutions directly affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Bank Systems & Technology January 31, 2006 Ivan Schneider	Vicious Hurricane Cycle Although one can hope that the upcoming hurricane season will defy the predictions that have accompanied the start of the decades-long hurricane cycle, the banks in the Gulf Coast must do more than hope. They must plan, and plan for the worst.
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