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"Hurricane Resistant Landscapes," Buck Abbey, Professor, ASLA, School of Landscape Architecture,LSU
"Cumulative Trauma Disorders - The Disease of the 90's" An Interdisciplinary Analysis." Dennis P. Juge, H. Stokes, and J. Pine. Louisiana State University Law Review. May, 1995.
Haines, Valerie A., Jeanne S. Hurlbert, and John J. Beggs. Forthcoming. "The Disaster Framing of the Stress Process: A Test of an Expanded Model." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 17.
Haines, Valerie A., Jeanne S. Hurlbert, and John J. Beggs. 1996. "Exploring the Determinants of Support Provision: Provider Characteristics, Personal Networks, Community Contexts, and Support Following Life Events." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 37:252-264.
Beggs, John J., Valerie A. Haines, and Jeanne S. Hurlbert. 1995. "The Utilization of Aid From Formal Organizations Following a Natural Disaster: Effects of Personal Network and Community Context." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 14:57-78.
"A Climatology of Tropical Storm and Hurricane Strikes to Enhance Vulnerability Prediction for the Southeast U.S. Coast"Mueller, B. A.and Stone, G.W., Journal of Coastal Research, Vol. 17, pp., 949-956, 2001.
"Effect of Highway Alignment on Flooding - A Case study." Singh, V.P. and Quiroga, C.A., Journal of Environmental Hydrology, Vol. 4, pp., 1-17, 1996.
"Flood Peak Attenuation and Forecast." Singh, V.P., Li, J.Z. and Wang, G.T., Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 20-25, 1998.
"Hysteresis-Based Flood Wave Analysis." Mishra, S.K. and Singh, V.P., Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, Vol., pp., in press, 1998.
Walker, N.D., G. Fargion, L.J. Rouse, D. Biggs, The great flood of summer 1993: Mississippi River discharge studied, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No. 36, 409-415, 1994.
Coastal Meteorology, by S.A. Hsu, Academic Press, 1988, 237 pp.
Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., (in press). "Holocene history of catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast reconstructed from coastal lake and marsh sediments", in: Ning, Z.H. and Abdollahi, K. (eds.), The Consequences of Global Climatic Change on the Gulf of Mexico Region of the United States, The U.S. EPA Press.
Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 1997. "Lake sediment records of hurricane Opal and prehistoric hurricanes from the Florida Panhandle", Preprint Volume of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 397-398.
Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L. 1993. "Lake-sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama," Geology 21: 793-796.
Walker, N.D., Satellite assessment of Mississippi River plume variability: causes and predictability, Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 58, no. 1, 21-35, 1996.
M. Hugh-Jones, 1998. "Application of GIS & Remote Sensing in natural emergencies involving livestock," International Disaster Conference, Havanna, Cuba, March 18-20.
Huh, O.K., H.H. Roberts, L.J. Rouse, and D.A. Rickman, 1991 Fine Grain Sediment Transport and Deposition in the Atchafalaya and Chenier Plain Sedimentary System. Refereed conf. proceedings Coastal Sediments '91, Am. Soc. Civil Engineers, pp.817-830
Walker, N.D. and A.B. Hammack, Impacts of Winter Storms on Circulation and Sediment Transport: Atchafalaya-Vermilion Bay Region, Louisiana, Journal of Coastal Research, in press.
"An Assessment of the Transportation of Extremely Hazardous Substances for the Southern Mississippi River Corridor," Pine, John C., Erno Sajo, and Rebecca East. Submitted to the Journal of the American Society of Professional Emergency Planners (July, 1998).
"Extremely Hazardous Substances Transportation Study for Calcasieu and Southern Mississippi River Corridors," Pine, John C., Erno
Sajo, and Rebecca East. Louisiana State Emergency Response Commission, Baton Rouge, LA (1998).
"Analyzing Hazardous Materials Transportation Risks," Pine, John C., Brian Marx.. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 54 (1997) 113-122.
Water level statistics for design of transportation facilities in Coastal Louisiana, Record, No. 1483, 64-71, 1995 (with M. Alawady and B. Naghavi).
Wolshon, B. and C. Schwehm. (1999). "Effectiveness of Highway Advisory Radio as an ATIS: Louisiana’s Experience." Submitted for publication in the 2000 Transportation Research Board - Research Record Series.
Wolshon B., and Y. Hatipkarasulu, (1999). "Car Following Analysis Using GPS." Accepted for publication by the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Transportation Engineering, Reston, Virginia.
Wolshon, B(2002). "Planning for the Evacuation of New Orleans" ITE Journal, February, 2002 , pp. 44-49.
Wolshon, B. and William Taylor, (1999). "A Modeling Approach for the Evaluation of Adaptive Signal Control on Intersection Approach Delay." Transportation Research, Part C, August, 1999, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 53-72.
Wolshon, B., (2001). "One-Way-Out: Contraflow Freeway Operation for Hurricane Evacuation." Natural Hazards Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 105-112.
Behavior of marine sediment under storm wave-loading, Marine Georesources and Geotechnology, 12, 259-269, 1994 (with Qi Zhang).
Development of a shoreline evolution model and evaluation of erosion control in alternatives, Belle Fontaine, Jackson County, Mississippi: Human History, Geology, and Shoreline Erosion, S. Oivanki, ed., Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Geology, Bulletin 130, 61-121, 1994.
Errors of Kinematic - Wave and Diffusion - Wave Approximations for Steady-State Overland Flows." Singh, V.P. and Aravamuthan, V., Catena, Vol. 27, pp.209-227, 1996.
"Accuracy of Kinematic-Wave and Diffusion - Wave Approximations for Time - Independent Flow with Momentum Exchange Included." Singh, V.P. and Aravamuthan, V., Hydrological Processes, Vol. 11, pp. 511-532, 1997.
2000 Pepper, D.A., Stone, G.W., Wang, P. "A Preliminary Assessment of Wave, Current, and Sediment Interaction on the Louisiana Shoreface Adjacent to the Isles Dernieres." Estuaries (in press).
2000 Keen, T. and Stone, G.W. "Anomalous Response of Beaches to Hurricane Waves in a Low-Energy Environment, Northeast Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A." Journal of Coastal Research (in press).
Stone, G.W. and McBride, R.A. Louisiana barrier Islands and their Importance in Wetland Protection: Forecasting Shoreline Change and Subsequent Response of Wave Climate. Journal of Coastal Research, 14, 3, 900-916. 1998.
Jackson, A. and Pardue, J.H. 1997. Seasonal variability of crude oil respiration potential in salt and fresh marshes. Journal of Environmental Quality 26:1140-1146.
Owners Guide to Wetland Care: A Manual for the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuarine Complex, The Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, 1995 (with L.S. McKenzie, D.W. Earle, and R.E. Emmer).
The Importance and Role of Barrier Islands to Coastal Wetlands in Terrebonne Parish. A contract report for Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Report, Houma, LA 70361, Natural Systems Management and Engineering Program, CCEER, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, 1993. (with G. P. Kemp and J.N. Suhayda.)
Conceptual review of Potential Sediment input sites into Barataria Basin including Myrtle Grove, for the purpose of restoring and/or creating coastal wetlands. A Contract Report Prepared for Minerals Management Service through the NMFS, Baton Rouge La., CCEER, LSU,1993.
"Wind Loads on Petrochemical Structures: State-of-the-Practice and Current Research Topics," Proceedings, ASCE Spring Meeting, South Padre Island, Texas, 1998, pp. 287-291.
"A Refined Method for Calculating Wind Load Combinations on Open Frame Structures," Nadeem, Ahmad, and Levitan, M.L. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol 72, 1997, pp. 445-453.
"Overview of Recommended Guidelines for Wind Loads on Petrochemical Facilities," M.L. Levitan, Building to Last: Proceedings, ASCE Structures Congress XV, (April 13-16, 1997, Portland OR), L. Kempner and C Brown Eds., pp. 701-705.
"Wind Loading on Wood Structures," Levitan, M. L., Proceedings, International Wood Engineering Conference '96, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 1996.
"Geometric Similitude Applied to Model and Full-Scale Pressure Tap Sizes," Cochran, L.C., Levitan, M.L., Cermak, J.E. and Yeatts, B.B., Proceedings, Third Asia-Pacific Symposium on Wind Engineering (December 13-15, 1993; Hong Kong).
"Texas Tech Field Experiments for Wind Loads Part I: Building and Pressure Measuring System," Levitan, M.L. and Mehta, K.C., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 43, 1992, pp. 1565-1576.
"Texas Tech Field Experiments for Wind Loads Part II: Meteorological Instrumentation and Terrain Parameters," Levitan, M.L. and Mehta, K.C., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 43, 1992, pp. 1577-1588.
"Roof Pressures Measured in the Field on a Low Building," Mehta, K.C., Levitan, M.L., Iverson, R.E. and McDonald, J.R., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 41, 1992, pp. 181-192.
"Frequency Response Requirements for Fluctuating Wind Pressure Measurements," Letchford, C.W., Sandri, P., Levitan, M.L. and Mehta, K.C., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 40, 1992, pp. 263-276.
"Field Measured Pressures on the Texas Tech Building," Levitan, M.L., Holmes, J.D., Mehta, K.C. and Vann, W.P., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 38, 1991, pp. 227-234.
"An Overview of Texas Tech's Wind Engineering Field Research Laboratory," Mehta, K.C., Levitan, M.L., Chok, C.V., and Millsaps, D.L., Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 36, 1990, pp. 1037-1046.
"A Systematic Survey of Manufactured Housing Performance in Hurricane Elena,"McDonald, J.R., Vann, W.P. and Levitan, M., Report MHI-508, prepared for the Manufactured Housing Institute, Arlington, VA, by McDonald, Mehta and Minor, Consulting Eng., Lubbock, TX., 1987
HURRICANES AND CHEMICAL HAZARDS INTERNET CONFERENCE PAPERS
What information and technology is currently available to help us understand the risks associated with hurricanes? What resources may be available in the future to the research and emergency management community?
"Risk Assessment of Natural and Technological Hazards: A look at Calcasieu Parish," John C. Pine, Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Studies, LSU
"Remote Sensing and Emergency Management for Coastal Environmental Disasters," Oscar KI. Huh, Ph.D. Coastal Studies Institute, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA
"Weather Information for Emergency Management'" Kevin Robbins, Director, Southern Regional Climate Center, LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
How can we examine the impact of hurricanes on the Louisiana natural environment and on chemical process operations in Louisiana?
"Real time forecasting of Hurricane Winds and Flooding," Vibhas Aravamuthan, Joseph N. Suhayda, Natural Systems Engineering Laboratory, Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute, LSU
"Real Time Flood Modeling Due To The Severe Rainfall During A Hurricane: The West Fork of the Calcasieu River, Calcasieu and Beauregard Parishes, Louisiana," Hassan S. Mashriqui, Engineering Director, Natural Systems Modeling Group, CCEER, John C. Pine, Associate Professor, Institute for Environmental Studies, Doug Albert, Graduate Student, Geography Department, LSU
If an accidental release would occur from a chemical process operation, what is the potential source and impact of the failure?
"Are Chemical Plants at Risk from Hurricane Winds?" Marc Levitan, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LSU
"Atmospheric Dispersion with Risk and Probability Estimates in Extreme Weather Conditions," Erno Sajo Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Nuclear Science Center, LSU
Wolshon B., Urbina E.,and Levitan M.(2002). "National Review of Hurricane Evacuation Plans and Policies" LSU Hurricane Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (1 MB pdf file)