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He and others also strongly recommend that scientist input be
sought much more extensively. "I don't care who wants to control the
work," Mashriqui asserts. "But whoever it is has to listen to the
data. If our models show that the funnel effect will kill people,
then there is no excuse not to close the funnel."
Bahr agrees that engineers "have not so far engaged research
scientists nearly enough. And we need anthropologists and social
scientists to help figure out the people issues. Some parishes
[counties] were virtually wiped out by Katrina. Where does it make
sense, socially, to rebuild?" Williams, the USGS veteran who also
worked at the Corps for 13 years, says scientists continually "put
data out there, but it has no effect on its own. Politicians and
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| Wagonaar, a longtime Corps member who took over the
New Orleans district last July, says that in the future the Corps
will better integrate outside experts: "We are generally a lot more
open than we were five or six years ago, especially with regard to
environmental issues. But we can't study this situation forever
either. Someone will have to make a decision." |
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| MORE TO EXPLORE: |
| Drowning New Orleans. Mark Fischetti in
Scientific American, Vol. 285, No. 4, pages 76-85; October
2001. |
| Preliminary Report on the Performance of the New
Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
R. B. Seed et al., Report No. UCB/CITRIS-05/01, University of
California, Berkeley, and American Society of Civil Engineers,
November 17, 2005. Available at
www.asce.org/files/pdf/katrina/teamdatareport1121.pdf
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| Drawing Louisiana's New Map: Addressing Land Loss
in Coastal Louisiana. National Research Council. National
Academies Press (in press, scheduled for February 2006). |
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