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• <br />INTERNET <br />PAGES <br />Below are new or updated Internet resources that Natural Hazards Center staff members have found to be informative and useful. Other valuable <br />resources can be found throughout this newsletter. For a more complete list, visit http: / /wwiv.colorado. edu/ hazar-ds/r•esources/sites.html. <br />Hurricanes and Coastal Management <br />http://Understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/ <br />The Social Science Research Council hosts this Web forum that features essays addressing the underlying political, social, <br />and economic issues laid bare by the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. <br />http: / /Mceer. buffalo. edu/ research / Reconnaissance /K`atrina8 -28 -05 /Default. asp <br />A team from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research investigated damage to engineered struc- <br />tures following Hurricane Katrina. Preliminary damage reports and preliminary VIEWS (Visualizing Impacts of Earth- <br />quakes with Satellites) deployment images can be found here. <br />http://ngs.woe.noaa.gov/katrina/ <br />http: / /www, digitalglobe. com /katrina_gallery. html <br />http://Www.globexplorer.com/d`isasteriniages/ <br />http://earth.google.com/katrina.html <br />Additional satellite and aerial images of the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina are available on these Web sites. <br />http: // www. floods. org/ PDF/ ASFPM _HurricaneKatrina_WhitePaper 090905.pdf <br />Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Using Mitigation to Rebuild a Safer Gulf Coast, prepared by the Association of State <br />Floodplain Managers, focuses on issues the nation needs to consider and the mitigation approaches that must be incorpo- <br />rated into the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast to reduce the risk of flooding and hurricanes in the future. <br />http: / /www. census.gov/Press-Release/Www/2OO5/k`atrina. htm <br />http://Www.census.gov/Press-Release/Www/2OO5/rita.htm <br />These fact sheets from the U.S. Census Bureau feature links to poverty data, population and housing estimates, demo- <br />graphic information, transportation data, and economic information for the areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. <br />http: / /sis. nlm. nih. gov /enviro /hurricane. html <br />The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers this new Web page, "Hurricanes: Links to Health Information, Including <br />Toxicology and Environmental Health," for emergency response teams dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. <br />http://Www.mvd.usace.army.mil/hurricane/Chr.php <br />This Web site features news releases, articles, images, and help hotlines related to the response of the U.S. Army Corps of <br />Engineers to Hurricane Katrina. <br />http://Www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/k`atrina/ <br />This National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Web site provides useful and readily accessible envi- <br />ronmental health information to public health, environmental health, and public safety workers and volunteers deployed to <br />communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The site incorporates an interactive geographic information system. <br />http://Www.sciencemag.org/Sciext/k`atrina/ <br />This selection of Science magazine articles related to hurricanes, coastal disasters, and disaster policy has been made <br />available to aid policy makers, scientists, and the public in understanding the large -scale forces and smaller -scale scientific, <br />social, political background of Hurricane Katrina. <br />25 Natural Hazards Observer November 2005 <br />