Dr. J. David Rogers was recently named ASCE Fellow.
Dr. Rogers is the go-to whenever major media needs expert commentary on dam failure, levee failures and landslides. He also very well known in New Orleans Louisiana.
He was the lead researcher on a paper published in 2015 in Water Policy journal titled “Interaction between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Orleans Levee Board preceding the drainage canal wall failures and catastrophic flooding of New Orleans in 2005.”
This article, featured in a 2015 Sunday New York Times article, focused attention on the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and its lack of external peer reviews that allowed for faulty flood walls to be installed in the city.
