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Louisiana
Sea Grant Launches Hurricane Web Site
October 4, 2005
BATON ROUGE
– Responding to the need for information in the aftermath
of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana Sea Grant College
Program has launched a recovery resources Web site at http://www.laseagrant.org/hurricane/index.htm.
The Louisiana
Hurricane Recovery Resources site offers visitors information
on topics such as wetlands, seafood and water quality to ports,
economic impacts and rebuilding concerns. Through a question and
answer format with experts from a variety of fields, residents,
business owners and community leaders can findthe information
they need to make decisions about their immediate future. The
experts provide the best current information, and updates are
made as new data become available.
The hurricane
recovery site launch coincides with the unveiling of a more user-friendly
redesign of the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program Web site,
http://www.laseagrant.org.
The new design
incorporates easier navigation, more seamless connections to other
Louisiana Sea Grantsites and also offers visitors a search engine
function. The revised anchor site is the first step in a project
to redesign several Louisiana Sea Grant Web sites. Other Louisiana
Sea Grant sites provide information on fish species, aquaculture,
commercial and recreational fishing regulations, relevant legal
information, data on statetourism industry trends and resources
for science and marine educators.
Since its
establishment in 1968, Louisiana Sea Grant has worked to promote
stewardship of the state’s coastal resources through a combination
of research, education and outreach programs critical to the cultural,economic
and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal zone. Louisiana
Sea Grant, based at Louisiana State University, is part of the
National Sea Grant Program, a network of 30 programs in each of
the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico/U.S. Virgin
Islands.
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