One potential partnership that could help the COEPs offer some long-term solutions is the Katrina Environmental Research and Restoration Network (
KERRN), a vision conceived by John McLachlan, director of the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities in New Orleans.
To that end, Tulane and Xavier are creating a Katrina Environmental Research and Restoration Network (
KERRN) of researchers who share data and ideas across disciplinary, geographical, and institutional lines.