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Science 18 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5789, p. 901
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5789.901c
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The U.S. government should consider a 10-fold increase in research to help understand and protect against hurricanes, according to an upcoming report from a task force of the National Science Board convened in response to Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast last August.

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Panel chair Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma, says the country needs a $300-million-a-year National Hurricane Research Initiative along the lines of the multiagency National Earthquake Hazard Research Program created in the wake of the great 1964 earthquake that struck Alaska. Droegemeier says the panel hopes to capitalize on the current hurricane season to grab the attention of U.S. policymakers. "We're trying to build support for an integrative approach to this phenomenon," he reported last week to the science board, which sets policy for the National Science Foundation.




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