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Researchers Release Draft Final Report On New Orleans Levees
New Orleans LO (SPX) May 25, 2006 Following an eight-month study of the New Orleans levee system and its performance during Hurricane Katrina, a 30-person team of researchers led by Raymond Seed and Robert Bea of the University of California, Berkeley, released a near-complete draft of their findings today in a "town hall" meeting in that Gulf Coast city. Seed received two National Science Foundation grants to collect perishable data and to conduct an independent field investigation of the performance of the New Orleans levee systems with the intent the findings would prove vital for gauging the performance of levee systems distributed across the United States. The levee study is one of more than 100 NSF supported in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. For decades, the agency has supported field investigations following all manner of disasters, allowing researchers to travel the world to collect perishable data as soon as possible after an event. The results of these studies have provided emergency planners, responders and others with key findings ranging from how disasters inflict physical damage to the impact of social factors on evacuation and long-term emotional effects. Related Links National Science Foundation 
New Network Needed to Solve First Responder Communications Crisis
Las Vegas (SPX) May 22, 2006Morgan O'Brien, chairman of Cyren Call Communications Corp. and a long-time champion of improved mobile communications solutions for the public safety community, recently outlined his plan to create a new nationwide broadband network to solve the first responder communications crisis. |
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