The MISSION of the LSU HURRICANE CENTER is to advance the state-of-knowledge of hurricanes and their impacts on the natural, built, and human environments; to stimulate new interdisciplinary/collaborative research activities; to transfer this knowledge and technology to students and professionals in concerned disciplines; and to assist the state, the nation, and the world in solving hurricane-related problems.

Faculty with expertise in coastal sciences, meteorology, geology, geography, remote sensing, and other disciplines have research programs studying effects of hurricanes on coastal erosion, millennial-scale variations in hurricane activity, and storm tracking, and coastal restoration strategies to reduce storm impacts, just to name a few.

Engineers and architects are developing solutions to problems such as evacuation traffic management, real-time flood modeling and prediction, selection of appropriate buildings for hurricane evacuation shelters, retrofit techniques to help historic structures withstand hurricanes, and detection and repair of weak spots in flood protection levees.

Social scientists, veterinary and medical scientists, planners, economists, and others are actively studying implications of hurricanes on society as a whole, from design of disaster-resistant communities, to risk management, to epidemiology of floods, to the use of social networks for coping with hurricane impacts.