Katrina: Up Close & Personal

Stennis Space CenterCovington, LABay St Louis, MSLong Beach, MSOcean Springs, MS

NCDDC: Personal Impact Statements

• IT support to Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

• Facilitate partnered Post-Katrina grant proposals

• Environmental Assessment web site

- Change detection

- Imagery products

- Grounded boat count

- Storm surge analysis

- Internet mapping

Post-Katrina Support Activities

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

NESDIS – MDMR Partnership• Replace destroyed equipment

• Desktop PCs; ruggedized laptops; printers; servers; network hardware

• Data recovery underway

• Oyster habitat, finfish & enforcement data

EGT/EOP Post-Katrina Grant Proposals

• Tri-State coalition: monitoring, assessment, and integrated ecosystem data management (federal, state, and academia

• USM/CenGOOS: bathymetry surveys; monitoring & assessment for environmental impact; data management

• NRL: Response for environmental impact; in situ obs, remote sensing, & numerical modeling components

• LSU Biogeochemistry Wetlands Institute: Katrina’s impact on Breton Sound, La marshes

• Mapping Mississippi Coastal Counties

- Infrastructure & facilities

- Imagery

- FEMA destruction zones

- Change detection

- Grounded boat count

www.ncddc.noaa.gov/Katrina* Also linked to Environmental Impact of Hurricane Katrina website

http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/hurricane_katrina/

Katrina Impact Assessment Website

Change Detection:Gulf Islands National Seashore

306.2 acres lost

Aqua 7 Sept false color – light plumes TSM Terra Oct 24 post front – re-suspended sediment

MODIS Aqua/Terra Turbidity Products:Lake Pontchartrain (NASA ESD)

• Over 4000 boat counts with GPS coordinates

• Provided to MDMR, FEMA, and USCG for assessment and removal

• Briefed to Mississippi congressional delegations

Grounded Boat Count

Storm Surge Analysis

• Demographics; reporting and infrastructure updates

• Flood levels observable via mouse drag across screen

• Tool developed through NESDIS grant to JSU

www.ncddc.noaa.gov/Katrina

Katrina Impact Assessment Website

demonstration