EAS News Article
Expert: Storm was predictable
By Tanya Brown
tbrown@journalandcourier.com
For Jeffrey Vitter, dean of the College of Science at Purdue University, Hurricane Katrina was personal.
Vitter, whose family migrated to New Orleans from France in the 1840s, watched the scenes unfolding on the Gulf Coast with a sense of dread. He, better than most, knew what the general public in Indiana did not know -- that officials in the city had been warned of such a storm often.
On Tuesday, he introduced Matthew Huber , a Purdue atmospheric scientist, to an audience of about 350 students and community members in Stewart Center. <more>
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