TO:   Extension Professionals

RE:   Hurricane Information

          Exchange

IMPORTANT: As an Extension professional, your willingness to help and provide resources is important. In order to make this page most efficient and helpful to all of those involved, please keep your submissions specific to the recovery efforts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, while providing enough detail that can easily direct those in need of your offer.

Do you have specific needs as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita? Please send them to Abigail Borron at aborron@purdue.edu or call her at 765-494-4390. Be sure to include enough detail, as well as your name and contact information.

Some of the immediate programming needs relate to:

• 4-H Cooperative Relief
• Trauma
• How to assemble documentation to apply for FEMA and SBA assistance (if the states provide relief funds, North Carolina has a web-based program that was used this last year that could be a starting point for a state program.)
• Financial management for recipients of FEMA and SBA and other financial assistance 
• Food safety issues
• Drinking water safety, well decontamination, etc.
• Continued housing - www.hurricanehousing.org
• Use of charcoal and gas grills indoors
• Household mold and moisture issues
• Support for Animal Care
• Animal feed/hay, shelters, disposal 
• Generator safety and use

Requests from Affected States:

Mississippi

• In need of ready-to-use first aid kits for shelters and people on the coast. Contact: Jane Clary (Mississippi State Univ.), Associate Extension Professor, Dept. of Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion. Email: jclary@humansci.msstate.edu

Do you have available resources (specifically Web-based educational materials that have been helpful for you in the past) that can be utilized in the recovery phases of these hurricanes? Please send them to Abigail Borron at aborron@purdue.edu or call her at 765-494-4390. Be sure to include a URL if applicable, or how your resource can be attained.  

Due to the tremendous amount of resources that have been submitted for this section, a new page has been created to accommodate the growing list: Resources from Land Grant Universities & Federal Agencies.

Do you have an educational expertise that could be utilized in the recovery phases of these hurricanes? Please send a description, along with your name and contact information to Abigail Borron at aborron@purdue.edu or call her at 765-494-4390. (Note: If you are interested in volunteering labor efforts, please see EDEN's section on Donations and Volunteering).

Available Courses

• Health Care Facilities - Contact: Heather Dorr (University of Minnesota) - College of Continuing Education. Email: hdorr@cce.umn.edu;  Phone: 612-625-5267

Agricultural Meteorology

• Tom Priddy (University of Kentucky - Ag. Weather Center) - Ag. Weather Specialist.  Email: priddy@uky.edu;  Phone: 859-257-3000 ext. 245; Cell Phone: 859-327-9119

Engineering / Construction

• David M. Crohn (University of California, Riverside) - agricultural engineer with expertise in solid waste management, composting municipal wastes, land application of wastes, and wetlands used for treating wastewater; Department of Environmental Sciences. Email: David.Crohn@ucr.edu; Phone: 951-827-3333 
• Michael Goldschmidt (University of Missouri) - Housing and Environmental Design Extension Specialist. Email: goldschmidtm@missouri.edu;  Phone: 573-884-0905
• Ken Hellevang (North Dakota State University) - Ag and Biosystems Engineering. Email: kjh-eng@ndsuext.nodak.edu;  Phone: 701-231-7243
• Wendell Porter (University of Florida) - Resource efficient construction in hot-humid climates; Agricultural & Biological Engineering.  Email: waporter@ifas.ufl.edu;  Phone: 352-392-1864 ext. 187
• Ted Funk (University of Illinois) - Extension Specialist - Agricultural Engineering. Email: funkt@uiuc.edu;  Phone: 217-333-9313

Family & Children

• Caroline Crocoll (CSREES-USDA) - National Program Leader, Family and Human Development. Email: ccrocoll@csrees.usda.gov;  Phone: 202-720-4795
• Karen DeBord (North Caroline State University) - State specialist, Child Development. Email: karen_debord@ncsu.edu;  Phone: 919-515-9147
• Anna-Mae Kobbe (CSREES-USDA) - Director, Family Consumer Sciences and Nutrition. Email: akobbe@csrees.usda.gov;  Phone: 202-720-2920
• Lawrence Shelton (University of Vermont) - Human Development and Family Studies. Email: Lawrence.Shelton@uvm.edu;  Phone: 802-656-2008
• Wayne Matthews (NC Cooperativve Extension) - Human Development Specialist. Email: Wayne_Matthews@ncsu.edu;  Phone: 919-515-9139

Flood Assessment and Cleanup

• Ted Funk (Univ. of Illinois) - A licensed professional engineer and experienced to advise in dead animal disposal; Agricultural Engineering.  Email: funkt@uiuc.edu;  Phone: 217-333-9313

Food Safety / Food Processing

• Kristin Woods-Williams (Alabama Cooperative Extension) - Food Safety, Preparation, and Preservation. Email: woodskl@auburn.edu; Phone: 251-275-3121

Housing and Environment

• Shirley Niemeyer (University of Nebraska) - Extension Specialist/Research. Email: sniemeyer@unlnotes.unl.edu; Phone: 402-472-6319

ICS / Emergency Management

• Mark Hansen (Michigan State University Extension) - Emergency Management and Wildfire Specialist. Has active military experience specializing in supply and property books. Email: hansenm@msu.edu; Phone: 517-432-7696

Mold & Moisture

• Catherine Burwell (Purdue Extension) - Extension IRB and Reporting Coordinator. Email: ceb@purdue.edu;  Phone: 765-494-7795
• Ted Funk (University of Illinois) - Extension Specialist - Agricultural Engineering. Email: funkt@uiuc.edu;  Phone: 217-333-9313
• Janie Harris (Texas Cooperative Extension) - Housing and Environment. Email: jl-harris@tamu.edu;  Phone: 979-847-8865
• Ken Hellevang (North Dakota State University) - Ag and Biosystems Engineering. Email: kjh-eng@ndsuext.nodak.edu;  Phone: 701-231-7243
• Kendra Moyses (Michigan State University Extension) - Associate Program Leader. Email: kmoyses@msu.edu;  Phone: 517-432-7654
• Shirley Niemeyer (University of Nebraska) - Extension Specialist/Research. Email: sniemeyer@unlnotes.unl.edu; Phone: 402-472-6319

Post-Disaster Community Development and Planning

• Peter Marshall (West Virginia Extension Service Community Resource and Economic Development)  Community Development and Planning Specialist. E-mail hpmarshall@wvu.edu;  Phone 304-293-6967 ext 3427