Below are links to key websites containing information on the background and science surrounding Hurricane Katrina and impacts on the Gulf Coast region.

This is a link to the Science Education Resource Center maintained by Carleton College.  It contains hurricane visualizations from various sources, focusing on the science of hurricanes and historic imagery: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/hurricanes.html

This is a link to the Times-Picayune's five-part series "Washing Away" from 2002, which predicted what would happen when a category 4 or 5 hurricane hit New Orleans: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/

This is a link to the Scientific American article "Drowning New Orleans" from 2001, with a discussion of the proposed COAST 2050 plan to restore wetlands to reduce catastrophic flood risk: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F0000

Here is a National Geographic article from October 2004 on the state of the Louisiana bayou: http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html

Here is the NOAA page on hurricane storm surges: http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/prepare/surge.htm

The Los Angeles Times has a great graphic of the loss of coastline since the 1930s: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-090405barrier-g,0,1411019.graphic