Disaster expert from @UofSC available to discuss #HurricaneKatrina lessons learned 10 years later

Susan Cutter is a distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. Her primary research interests are in the area of disaster vulnerability/resilience science—what makes people and the places where they live vulnerable to extreme events and how vulnerability and resilience are measured, monitored and assessed. She has authored or edited twelve books, more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Cutter has led a Hurricane Katrina post-event field team to examine the geographic extent of storm surge inundation along the Mississippi and Alabama coastline and its relationship to the social vulnerability of communities.To learn more.