Sharky studies designs for hazard-resistant communities. Abbey and Sharky study hurricane planning and effects of wind on plants and trees. He studies the epidemiology of floods. Van Heerden performs flood and storm-surge modeling and is also deputy director of the proposed LSU Hurricane Center. Aravamuthan is also director of the Natural Systems Engineering Laboratory at LSU and studies flood modeling.
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Robbins, also an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, can discuss the methods by which LSU receives weather data more quickly than the National Weather Service. The data is also stored at the climate center.