Profs & Pints DC: Hunting Hurricanes

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Hunting Hurricanes,” a look at research on violent storms, their impact, and their causes, with Jeffrey Halverson, professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, former NASA hurricane investigator, and author of An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather.

We are in the season for hurricanes, cause of the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in the United States. But what do you really know about them?

Gain a deep understanding of these violent storms with hurricane scientist Jeffrey Halverson, severe weather expert for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, long-time writer for Weatherwise magazine, and author of a book that seeks to explain severe and hazardous weather to laypeople.

Before becoming a professor at UMBC—where he teaches courses on natural hazards, weather and climate, and severe storms and their impacts—Dr. Halverson was a NASA scientist who took high-altitude aircraft…