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• Ivor_van_Heerden abstract "Ivor van Heerden, holds a doctorate in Marine Sciences and was the deputy director of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Hurricane Center, before being dismissed by LSU following Hurricane Katrina. He is also the director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes.Van Heerden was born on September 21, 1950 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He grew up in Natal. He has one daughter, Vanessa van Heerden, and one step daughter, Julia James. He created a hurricane modeling program at LSU. For the last decade he has been one of the most persistent voices warning of the inevitable effects of a major hurricane on the Louisiana coast. He was one of several hundred participants at the Hurricane Pam exercise in July 2004. He claims that his warnings during the Hurricane Pam exercise were ignored, which may have contributed to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. He has also taken the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to task for their misdesigns which caused the Levee failures in Greater New Orleans, 2005. For a time LSU told him not to talk to the media, amid concerns that his book The Storm was endangering federal grant money flowing to the university.(The Storm, published in 2006, offered his analysis of Katrina and the levee disasters.) Van Heerden also alleged that the White House withheld information that the levees of New Orleans had broken. On 9 April 2009 LSU announced it would not renew van Heerden's contract, effective the end of the spring semester 2010. Van Heerden said he was not offered any reason. Van Heerden spoke to Harry Shearer on his Le Show radio program on 12 April 2009 and said, "I learned about not being deputy director through the news media. They basically didn't have the guts to tell me that to my face.... They couldn't tell me why and wouldn't tell me why."In an editorial letter to the Times-Picayune, Charles E. Settoon criticized Dr. van Heerden for allegedly offering "engineering services" and that he had represented himself "as an engineer publicly without having a professional engineer's license" and consequently, that he was a legal liability for his employer, LSU.Van Heerden was strongly defended in the Louisiana press. An especially tart assailment of LSU's administration appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, from James A. Cobb Jr., attorney and adjunct professor in LSU-rival Tulane University's School of Law, whose letter to the editor ended thus: Academic freedom and intellectual integrity are, at LSU, like two distant cousins who haven't spoken to each other in many, many years.Flagship university? Please.In an interview cited in the New York Times, van Heerden voiced suspicion that his "slow-motion" firing was timed to the opening—on Monday, April 20—of a multibillion-dollar civil suit in federal court against the USACE over the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (MR-GO). The suit alleges the "short-cut" canal caused environmental degradation of the wetlands and greatly increased the effect of [Katrina], causing the flooding in such areas as St. Bernard Parish and the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. Dr. van Heerden is expected to testify in [the] case, and he said "I think that’s the timing — to try to discredit me."In 2011, the American Association of University Professors found that LSU violated van Heerden's academic freedom. In February 2013, LSU paid van Heerden $435,000 in settlement. An article in the Times-Picayune online edition, April 2013, noted that LSU spent nearly $1 million in fees and other costs to complete the firing of van Heerden. In a two and half year court battle, LSU paid Baton Rouge law firm Kantro Spaht Weaver and Blitzer more than $457,000. Later vindicated by other studies, the corp commanding Lt. Gen Carl Strock noted in 2006, "This has been sobering for us, because it's the first time the corps has had to stand up and say we had a catastrophic failure with one of our projects." The Times-Picayune article also reported that Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal who investigated the reported costs incurred by LSU, noted that van Heerden “...tried to get the truth out about the cause of the flooding, and the higher-ups at LSU seemed to be suppressing the truth.”".
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