Aiming at Katrina

Tulane is sponsoring a series of panel discussions on the impacts of the hurricane. Participants include:
-Douglas Brinkley, director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane and author of the soon-to-be-released book, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
-Dan Milham, chief meteorologist at WDSU-TV, with details on the storm itself.
-Col. Terry Ebbert, director of Homeland Security for the City of New Orleans, presenting the city's disaster plans.
-Gregory Breerwood, deputy district engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to discuss the history of the levee system.
-R. King Milling, chairman of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Coastal Restoration and Conservation.

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