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Research Team Organization
Adapted from our proposal to the National Science Foundation, February
2007:
Reconstituting
Community:
Varieties
of Social Capital in Disaster Recovery
Community Recovery in Greater New Orleans since
Hurricane Katrina
Social
and Organizational Surveys,
Combined
with Engineering Assessments,
Public
Health Evaluation, and GIS Mapping
The research is organized under one
Principle Investigator and two Co-Principle Investigator, in three
disciplinary areas: (1) Frederick Weil (PI) oversees the project as a whole,
and supervises the Social Science component; (2) John Pine (co-PI) supervises
the GIS component; and (3) Marc Levitan (co-PI) supervises the Engineering
component. The mainly-LSU team is
joined by colleagues at the Rand Corporation and Duke University, as well as Steven Bingler,
the city planner who coordinated New Orleans’ planning for most of
2006.
Social
Science Component
- Frederick Weil,
LSU Department of Sociology, specializes in survey research, political and
community sociology, and social theory, will supervise the social
science component in general, and the individual social surveys in
particular.
- Kavita Patel, M.D., a physician and public health expert at the Rand Corporation,
will focus especially on the analysis of stress.
- Daphne Cain
and Juan Barthelemy, assistant
professors in the LSU School of Social Work, will direct the surveys of
organizations.
- David Banks, Department of Statistics at Duke University,
is a consultant on this project and has designed complex sampling frames
and weighting plans for post-Katrina surveys.
- Troy Blanchard,
LSU Department of Sociology,
specializes in multilevel- and GIS/spatial modeling of community
dynamics, and will bridge several areas of the project.
- Steven Procopio
is director of the LSU Public Policy Research Lab (PPRL: the LSU Survey
Lab), which will conduct the social and organizational survey data
collection.
GIS
Component
- John Pine,
LSU Department of Geography, Director of LSU's graduate and
undergraduate program in Disaster Science and Management, and a disaster
specialist who does research on community vulnerability and consequence
assessment (social, economic and environmental), will supervise the GIS
component of the research.
- Barrett Kennedy, LSU School of Architecture and
Associate Dean of the College
of Art+Design, is
Director of LSU’s CADGIS Lab. His expertise is in the areas of
historic preservation and community design.
- Michael Leitner, LSU Department of Geography, is an
expert in statistical spatial analysis and GIS, and computer
cartography.
Engineering
Component
- Marc Levitan,
Director of LSU’s multidisciplinary Hurricane Center,
is a wind engineering expert, and will supervise the engineering
component of the research.
- Carol Friedland,
who is completing her dissertation on the development of a predictive
storm surge damage model for residential structures and served as the
field expert in the New Orleans MCEER reconnaissance (MCEER 2005), will
direct the collection, management, and analysis of the structural
engineering data.
- Hassan Mashriqui is an Assistant Professor-Research faculty member at LSU. His specialty is hydrology and
modeling hurricane storm surge, flooding and wind damage, and he played
a major role in reconstructing the sequence of events that led to New Orleans levee
failures. He provides
technical support to the project team on flooding issues.
City Planning Component
- Steven
Bingler, Director
of Concordia, LLC, and
Planning Coordinator of The Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP), is a leading
city planner and is joining his research and planning efforts with the
the LSU team.
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