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Thanks, Science, for Katrina Coverage

Grace A. Maresh   (20 October 2005)

Thanks, Science, for Katrina Coverage 20 October 2005
Grace A. Maresh, scientist Children's Hospital New Orleans Respond to this E-Letter: Re: Thanks, Science, for Katrina Coverage	I am a researcher in Dr. Seth Pincus' lab in New Orleans who was featured in your Sept.9 article. I want to thank Science for allowing those of us without subscriptions to access Science online and also AAAS for setting up the Hurricane Brokerage Service site for those scientists who have lost lab space, equipment, and supplies. I will try to contact everyone I know in the New Orleans scientific community to tell them about this. We are all trying to figure out how to start again when many of our valuable samples, animals, etc. have been lost. My husband, an LSU Med School professor, has not been able to get to his lab for 3 weeks and his technicians and grad students are scattered across the country. One of my own lab colleagues has lost her house. It is hard to decide what to do when so many things need to come together in working order to let us resume our lives: our homes, schools for our children, and our lab sites. New Orleans has a larger scientific community than many people realize and I hope it can come back from this disaster stronger.