The Emotional Context of Higher Education Community Engagement by J. Ashleigh Ross, Randy Stoecker

“…This paper is based on interviews with residents of the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans who experienced various forms of higher education community engagement in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The results are surprising. First, residents most appreciated the sense of emotional support they received from service learners and volunteers, rather than the direct service those outsiders attempted to engage in. …”
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We don’t make the News, we just report it: Television Journalism and Narratives of Trauma by Marguerite Moritz, Theresa Crapanzano

“…These include the 9-11 terror attacks of 2001, the devastation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the school shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007. …”
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Coastal Sand Frostweed, Crocanthemum arenicola Synonym: Helianthemum arenicola by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…It is endemic to the Florida Panhandle, Mississippi, and Alabama coastal counties. After Hurricane Katrina, coastal sand frostweed became the plant with highest frequency on stable dunes on Horn Island, Mississippi (Lucas and Carter 2013). https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sg168 Note: This fact sheet is also available as a chapter in a comprehensive manual titled Dune Restoration and Enhancement for the Florida Panhandle,  Please see the manual for more information about other useful and attractive native plants for dunes and for further information about restoration and preservation techniques. …”
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Going "Beyond Food": Confronting Structures of Injustice in Food Systems Research and Praxis by Catarina Passidomo

“…I draw on research experience in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, USA, as well as commentary from eminent food systems scholars, to advocate for new research trajectories that utilize food as a lens for contesting broader structures of injustice, rather than advocating for more and better food as an end in itself.…”
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Personal commentary by Mitchell, J

“…Finally, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina disabled some production and about 2 mb/d of refining capacity in the USA. …”

Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Taking an Ecosystem-Based Approach by Keith Alverson

“…Similarly, the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005 caused 1,836 deaths and $81 billion in damage. …”
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DETERMINED TO LEARN: ACCESSING EDUCATION DESPITE LIFE- THREATENING DISASTERS by Claudine SchWeber

“…Empire State College’s (New York) activities in its Lebanon Residence Program after the 2006 war and Xavier University in New Orleans’ actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina provide valuable answers. Together with the unique Sloan Semester—created to temporarily provide educational continuity for hurricane affected students—these programs also offer lessons on resilience and survival in a crisis. …”
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Asymmetrischer Wiederaufbau in Städten nach Katastrophen. Das Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans nach Orkan Katrina by Mark Kammerbauer

“…In the case of the city of New Orleans in the USA, heavily hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this can be observed particularly in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. …”
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Rat Lungworm Infection in Rodents across Post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, USA by Rosalyn C. Rael, Anna C. Peterson, Bruno Ghersi-Chavez, Claudia Riegel, Amy E. Lesen, Michael J. Blum

“…These areas were selected to capture contrasting levels of income, flooding, and pos-disaster landscape management after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. We detected A. cantonensis in all areas and in 3 of the 4 rat species trapped. …”
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“Dusk can be a magical time in the French Quarter”: Richard Ford’s New Orleans before and after Katrina in “Puppy” and “Leaving for Kenosha” by Gérald PRÉHER

“…Focusing on the description of the city in the two stories, this article points out the gap between the flamboyant city of the past and its present ruins since the 2005 hurricane Katrina. Both stories rely on the dysfunction brought about by an intruder and as the narratives come to an end, some kind of balance has been restored because the life of the city takes over.…”
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Isleños’ Spanish language preservation in Saint Bernard Parish: a case study in the voices of Joseph ‘Chelito’ Campo, Irvan Perez and Allen Perez by Fabiola Varela-García

“…This dialectal research attests to extraordinary linguistic preservation in a handful of old speakers right before Hurricane Katrina forced the dismantling of the community in 2005.…”
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Nonprofit Organizations in Disaster Response and Management: A Network Analysis by NAIM KAPUCU, FARHOD YULDASHEV, MARY ANN FELDHEIM

“…Additionally, the data collected from news reports and organizational after action reports about the inter-organizational interactions of emergency management agencies during the September 11th attacks and Hurricane Katrina are analyzed by using network analysis tools. …”
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Making Medical Records More Resilient by Rudin, Robert

“…Hurricane Katrina showed that the current methods for handling medicalrecords are minimally resilient to large scale disasters. …”
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A natural experiment of the consequences of concentrating former prisoners in the same neighborhoods by Kirk, D

“…Through a natural experiment focused on post-Hurricane Katrina Louisiana, I examine a counterfactual scenario: If instead of concentrating ex-prisoners in geographic space, what would happen to recidivism rates if ex-prisoners were dispersed across space? …”

Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide : Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents / by Awotona, Adenrele A., editor

Environmental and health disparities in residential communities of New Orleans: The need for soil lead intervention to advance primary prevention by Howard W. Mielke, Christopher R. Gonzales, Eric T. Powell, Paul W. Mielke

“…Reanalysis of pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina soil samples indicates relatively unchanged soil Pb. …”
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Restoration Of A Unique Urban Esthetic While Avoiding The “Boutique City Conundrum”: The Case Of New Orleans by J. Brad McBride

“…Since Hurricane Katrina wrought devastation on the city of New Orleans in 2005, the city has seen a renaissance with the return of many of those who fled the storm, as well as an inward migration of young professionals and entrepreneurs who believe there is opportunity for an attractive future in the region in which they can participate. …”
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RESTORATION OF A UNIQUE URBAN ESTHETIC WHILE AVOIDING THE “BOUTIQUE CITY CONUNDRUM”: The Case of New Orleans by J. Brad McBride

“…Since Hurricane Katrina wrought devastation on the city of New Orleans in 2005, the city has seen a renaissance with the return of many of those who fled the storm, as well as an inward migration of young professionals and entrepreneurs who believe there is opportunity for an attractive future in the region in which they can participate.  …”
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Goodbye Charity Hospital by Fanny Chabrol

“…Although also emblematic of solidarity during hurricane Katrina, this hospital was nonetheless closed in the aftermath of the storm. …”
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Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi by Stéphanie DENÈVE

“…Through their songs, they described how they experienced and perceived their interactions with nature, denounced the treatment African-American environmental refugees received, and raised awareness about an issue which is as burning today as it was then – environmental injustice, in a way that still seemed relevant to Hurricane Katrina’s victims almost a century later.…”
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