"What we know (and don’t know) about hurricanes and climate change"
Wednesday, Oct 01, 2025
- Nespresso & Teatime - 417 DSL Commons
- 03:00 to 03:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Colloquium - 499 DSL Seminar Room
- 03:30 to 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Abstract:
In recent years, the US has experienced devastating hurricane landfalls - from Hurricane Michael (2018), the strongest hurricane to ever strike the Florida Panhandle, to last year’s Helene and Milton which both made landfall in Florida as major hurricanes. Has the severity and likelihood of these extreme events been influenced by climate change and if so, how? This talk will review what we know (and what we don’t know) about the influence of climate warming on hurricanes. It will cover what changes have already occurred, what can we expect in the future, and what tools we use to make future projections.
Speaker's Bio
Allison A. Wing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University, where she holds the Werner A. and Shirley B. Baum Professorship. She received a Bachelor of Science Summa cum Laude in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from MIT. Prior to starting her faculty position at FSU in 2017, Dr. Wing held an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where she retains an appointment as an Adjunct Research Scientist. Dr. Wing is the recipient of the American Meteorological Society’s Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, for excellence in research by an early career scientist, and was also named by Popular Science magazine to their “Brilliant 10” list of innovative up-and-coming minds in science. She studies the organization of tropical convection and its implications for climate and hurricane development, using a combination of theory, observations, and models.
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