NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, scientist from around the world conducted research on the storms impact.

Closer to home, that research has been done at the LSU Center for River Studies, Louisiana's experts on our coast. WGNO visited the center to examine their work.

"Katrina did two things. One, it was all about people and natural resources. We had to put them together because they've lived together, the people and the natural resources were disappearing. Second, we had to think big. For Katrina, we realized this is a big problem," said VP of Research/LSU Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science, Robert Twilley.

Twilley addressed how those departments began to look at our states disappearing coast and coastal communities. The end result working with the stat

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