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Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Valerie Winn

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8840
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
MASGP 07-011-02

Regional Project Funding

MASGC Teams Up with Florida, Louisiana, and Texas Sea Grants to Fund Two Regional Projects

Using state-of-the-art technology, high-strength fiber composites and a unique full-scale testing facility, Adrindam Gan Chowdhury, Assistant Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research of Florida International University is working to remedy hurricane-induced losses brought about from insufficiently built residential structures. The proposed research aims at the use of high-performance fiber composites in construction to form a barrier to winds of up to 140 mph. The proposed system would work by transferring wind forces from the building envelope to the frame, and then to the foundation.

To aid planning and policy development for economic recovery in the Gulf of Mexico, Nina Lam of the Department of Environmental Studies of Louisiana State University is developing models for post-Hurricane Katrina business return in New Orleans. By developing models and using first-hand survey data set collected after the storm, her findings could be useful in planning and policy development for economic recovery in the Gulf of Mexico. The models will also be beneficial to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Louisiana Recovery Authority and local planning agencies.