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Katrina: Up Close & Personal

This report outlines the extensive post-Katrina support activities initiated by various organizations in collaboration with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. Key areas of focus include IT support, grant proposals for restoration, environmental assessments, and storm surge analyses. Significant efforts were made to recover lost data, assess the impacts on oyster habitats and finfish resources, and monitor the ongoing coastal recovery. The report also highlights the use of technology in mapping damage and change detection, providing vital information for decision-making in storm recovery and management.

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Katrina: Up Close & Personal

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  1. Katrina: Up Close & Personal

  2. Stennis Space Center Covington, LA Bay St Louis, MS Long Beach, MS Ocean Springs, MS NCDDC: Personal Impact Statements

  3. Post-Katrina Support Activities • 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

  4. Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

  5. NESDIS – MDMR Partnership • Replace destroyed equipment • Desktop PCs; ruggedized laptops; printers; servers; network hardware • Data recovery underway • Oyster habitat, finfish & enforcement data

  6. 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

  7. Katrina Impact Assessment Website • 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 websitehttp://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/hurricane_katrina/

  8. Change Detection:Gulf Islands National Seashore 306.2 acres lost

  9. MODIS Aqua/Terra Turbidity Products:Lake Pontchartrain (NASA ESD) Aqua 7 Sept false color – light plumes TSM Terra Oct 24 post front – re-suspended sediment

  10. Grounded Boat Count • Over 4000 boat counts with GPS coordinates • Provided to MDMR, FEMA, and USCG for assessment and removal • Briefed to Mississippi congressional delegations

  11. Storm Surge Analysis • Demographics; reporting and infrastructure updates • Flood levels observable via mouse drag across screen • Tool developed through NESDIS grant to JSU

  12. Katrina Impact Assessment Websitedemonstration www.ncddc.noaa.gov/Katrina

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