UNC Reseacher Protecting New Orleans 10 years after Katrina
Posted Aug 27, 2015
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans relies on a UNC-Chapel Hill researcher’s expertise on major storms and the strength of the levee system protecting the city. Rick Luettich, director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City and an expert in storm surge modeling, began working with the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana in the late 1990s.
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