My Research Interests
- Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans
- Disaster Geographies
- Urban Sustainability
- Tourism Geographies, especially in the Baseball Tourism Cooridor of Rt 28 Cooperstown to Oneonta and in Bar Harbor, Maine
- Coastal Zone Management
Recent Grants
StAR (Strategic Allocation of Resources) Grant: Expanding Opportunities for Study Away: Multicultural Competency Development
- May 2016, $100,000; Co PI with Renee Walker
- May 2014, $150,000; Committee member (PI: Susan Turell)
Domestic Intercultural Immersion Grant: Funding to take students to New Orleans for a service-learning course
- April 2016, $34,200; Principal Investigator
- November 2014, $32,650; Co PI with Anita Levine
Faculty International Travel Grant
November 2014, $2,000, Principal Investigator, Medical Geography in the Peruvian Rainforest: Acupuncture in Small Jungle Towns, A Comparison Study
Recent Publications
Open Source links provided where possible.
Lower 9th Ward, Recovery and Rebuilding
W.A. Lascell and P.R. Baumann, Middle States Geographer, 2015, Volume 48.
Tsunami 2004: Rebuilding and Relocating Rural Villages
P.R. Baumann and W.A. Lascell, Middle States Geographer, 2015, Volume 48.
Is Urban Sustainability Possible in Post-Katrina New Orleans?
Wendy A. Lascell, Book Chapter in Urban Sustainability: Praxis & Place, Gatrell, J., R. Jensen, M. Patterson, & N. Hoalst-Pullen (eds), Heidelberg: Springer, 2016.