Applications of Communication Infrastructure Theory. The Metamorphosis Project has a history of conducting applied and engaged scholarship. Notably, several past and present team members have utilized CIT to advance community health promotion (Wilkin, 2013; Wilkin, Moran, Ball-Rokeach, Gonzalez, & Kim, 2010).
NEW ORLEANS â Hurricane Isaac crashed ashore in southeast Louisiana on Tuesday, bringing high winds and soaking rains that pose the first test for multibillion-dollar flood defenses put in place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast seven years ago.
Hurricane Ike is in the top three for most destructive hurricane's to ever hit the United States, with $24 billion (2008 USD) and with additional damage of $7.3 billion in Cuba, $200 million in the Bahamas, and $500 million in the Turks and Caicos, amounting to a total of $32 billion in damages.