RAPID: A Double Dunk: How the Oil Spill is Affecting Katrina-Impacted Residents

科罗拉多州立大学的凯瑟琳·E·布朗博士将研究墨西哥湾漏油事件对仍在从2005年卡特里娜飓风的影响中恢复的人们的影响。这两起灾难的震中也发生在墨西哥湾沿岸的同一新奥尔良地区，影响了大量相同的人。其中一些影响是间接的和意想不到的。例如，受污染的渔业水域正在影响海产品供应，而海产品供应与维持家庭网络和家庭支助系统本身的复原力有关，事实证明，这些系统对处理卡特里娜飓风的后果至关重要。有了这个奖项，布朗将继续她对卡特里娜飓风后150名非裔美国人的大型亲属网络的恢复过程进行的实地研究。布朗的研究将在三个方面推动科学的发展：1)在方法上，通过展示对受灾居民进行系统的、定性的采访以收集其他方式无法获得的数据的价值；2)从理论上，通过将长期的灾难恢复建模为一个不稳定的、非线性的过程，而不是确定的事件或事件；以及3)通过向公众和科学界展示传播科学成果的价值。除了学术出版物，布朗的卡特里娜飓风研究还制作了一部纪录片《仍在等待：卡特里娜飓风后的生活》，由全国公共广播系统播出。

Dr. Katherine E. Browne (Colorado State University) will undertake research on how the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is impacting populations who are still recovering from the effects of the 2005 hurricane, Katrina. The epicenters of both these disasters have also occurred in the same New Orleans area of the Gulf Coast, affecting large numbers of the same people. Some of the impacts are indirect and unexpected. For example, contaminated fishing waters are affecting seafood supply which is linked to the maintenance of family networks and the resilience of the very family support systems that proved critical for dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. With this award, Browne will follow-up on field research she conducted on the post-Katrina recovery process of a large kin network of 150 African Americans. Browne's research will advance science in three ways: 1) methodologically, by demonstrating the value of systematic, qualitative interviews with disaster-affected residents to collect data that is otherwise unobtainable; 2) theoretically, by modeling long-term disaster recovery as a volatile, non-linear process, rather than a defined episode or event; and 3) by demonstrating the value of communicating science findings to the public as well as to the scientific community. In addition to scholarly publications, Browne's Katrina research produced a documentary film, Still Waiting: Life After Katrina, which was aired by the Public Broadcasting System across the country.