Through
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Hurricane Season
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season has produced a series of powerful and devastating storms with catastrophic effect to life and property. The hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30 each year, when large tropical cyclones form over the Atlantic or eastern Pacific Oceans and move towards land resulting in dangerously high winds, heavy rains and storm surges.
Irina Marinov
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
School of Arts & Sciences.
University of Pennsylvania.
School of Arts & Sciences.
University of Pennsylvania.
Marinov is an oceanographer and climate modeler. Together with lab members, she runs and analyzes large climate models to predict future changes in climate, with a particular focus on the role of the oceans in the global heat and carbon cycle.
Barbie Zelizer
Professor of Communication.
Annenberg School for Communication.
University of Pennsylvania.
Annenberg School for Communication.
University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Zelizer’s work focuses on the news media in times of crisis and war. She is the author of Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media and the Shaping of Collective Memory. She is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, and the Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication.
Julie Sloane | 215-746-1798 | jsloane@asc.upenn.edu
Frederick Steiner
Dean and Paley Professor in the School of Design and
Co-director of the Ian L. McHarg Center.
School of Design.
University of Pennsylvania.
Co-director of the Ian L. McHarg Center.
School of Design.
University of Pennsylvania.
Steiner is author of the book Design for a Vulnerable Planet. He helped establish the Sustainable SITES Initiative, the first program of its kind to offer a systematic, comprehensive rating system designed to define sustainable land development and management.
Michael Grant | 215-898-2539 | mrgrant@design.upenn.edu
Howard Kunreuther
James G. Dinan Professor of Decision Sciences and Business and Public Policy.
and Co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
The Wharton School.
University of Pennsylvania.
and Co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
The Wharton School.
University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Kunreuther has a long-standing interest in ways that society can better manage low-probability, high-consequence events related to technological and natural hazards. He served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a coordinating lead author for the chapter on “Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies” in its 2014 report.
Robert Meyer
Frederick H. Ecker/MetLife Insurance Professor of Marketing.
Co-director of Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
The Wharton School.
University of Pennsylvania.
Co-director of Wharton's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.
The Wharton School.
University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Meyer’s research focuses on consumer-decision analysis, sales-response modeling and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Some of his most recent work has examined how people decide to invest in mitigation against low-probability, high-consequence events, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and financial losses.