Weekly Highlights
MEMORANDUM
From: Susan Horton
Subject: Biology Highlights for National Wetlands Research
Center, October 7, 2005
II. Press Inquiries/Media
On October 12, Science journalist Erik Stokstad accompanied USGS
scientists Beth Middleton and Karen
McKee to the coastal wetlands of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park
and Preserve south of New Orleans where Middleton and McKee surveyed the
impacts of Hurricane Katrina on their research sites. Stokstad is writing
for an upcoming special hurricane edition of Science.
A map, “Southeast Louisiana Land Loss,” prepared by USGS National
Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, was used in the September/October
2005 Ducks Unlimited magazine article entitled “America’s
Marsh.”
The bird tracking radar research of USGS scientists Wylie
Barrow and Lori Randall was mentioned
in the article “Tracking Waterfowl by Radar” in the September/October
2005 issue of Ducks Unlimited magazine.
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