Eyeing the Storm

When a hurricane threatens, the staff of LSU's Earth Scan Laboratory (ESL) immediately go on a 24-hour alert. The faculty, staff, and students who run the ESL track tropical storms and hurricanes using satellite imagery. They provide this crucial data to state and federal emergency response offices in near real time every 30 minutes, faster than the National Weather Service. ESL Director Oscar Huh and Associate Director Nan Walker are part of a team of experts that compose the new LSU Hurricane Center, the only university-run program of its kind in the world. The Hurricane Center's experts cover a wide range of disciplines and provide remote sensing of storm movement and intensification; prediction of surge and rainfall flooding; and assessment of damage to the natural, built, and human environments.

NEW! Minor offered in Disaster Science and Management
LSU is offering a new undergraduate minor to students interested in natural disasters, environmental hazards, and emergency planning. This program is jointly administered by the College of Arts & Sciences and the LSU Hurricane Center in partnership with the School of the Coast & Environment. The disaster science and management minor, the only one of its kind in the nation, focuses on disasters and management and migration techniques. A minor in disaster science and management could provide students with career opportunities in local, state, and federal government, private industry, the nonprofit sector, emergency planning departments, law enforcement, and military service.

Last updated January 2002

• LSU Hurricane Center
• Earth Scan Laboratory
• Coastal Morphodynamics Laboratory
• Risk Laboratory, IES
• Southern Regional Climate Center
• Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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