Following a week in the field gathering data, the ASCE New Orleans levee assessment team released a public statement on October 7, 2005, describing its initial observations concerning the performance of the levee system during and after Hurricane Katrina. While the field studies have provided much valuable information, we will need additional data collection, testing, and analysis before we can completely assess levee performance. We are beginning to understand how the levees failed; it will take substantial analysis before we understand why they failed. {read more}

• Jurjen Battjes, The Delft
• Gordon Boutwell, Ph.D., P.E., L.S., M.ASCE, Soil Testing Engineers, Inc.
• Robert Anthony Dalrymple, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
• John R. Headland, P.E., M.ASCE, Design Manager, Moffatt & Nichol Engineers
• Peter G. Nicholson, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Nicholson Geotechnical and Associate Professor, University of Hawaii
• Francisco Silva-Tulla, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Consulting Civil Engineer - Geotechnics and Environment
• Shigeuobu Tanka, Port & Airport Research Institute
• Joseph Wartman, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor, Drexel University
• Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E. M.ASCE, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Michigan State University
• Ray Lee Wooten, P.E., M.ASCE, Design Division Manager, GEI Consultants Inc