Faculty Experts on Hurricane Katrina
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Groundwater contamination
Aaron A. Jennings, professor of civil engineering
Can discuss groundwater contamination, environmental and geo-environmental
engineering issues; hazardous waste management
Phone: (216) 368-4998
aaron.jennings@case.edu
Building structures
Arthur A. Huckelbridge, associate professor of civil engineering
Can discuss structure failure; structure design and dynamics; bridge engineering;
building and bridge collapse
Phone: (216) 368-2474
arthur.huckelbridge@case.edu
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Donald Freedheim, emeritus professor of psychology
Can discuss the effects of disasters/how people react to disasters
Phone: (216) 561-3690
donald.freedheim@case.edu
Karen Olness, professor of medicine/pediatrics, Case School of Medicine; pediatrician,
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital
Can discuss effects of disasters have on young children
Phone: (216) 368-4368
karen.olness@case.edu
“UNNATURAL DISASTER”
Ted Steinberg, professor of history and law, and author, “Acts of God: The
Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America”
Can discuss how man-made mistakes increase devastation of “natural” disasters
Phone: (216) 368-4137
theodore.steinberg@case.edu