Forbes magazine published a feature article about NMT physics grad student Jose Martinez-Claros. In the article, Jose describes how he discovered an interest in atmospheric physics and the study of hurricanes..

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In 1998, Jose Martinez-Claros was a school child as Hurricane Mitch crossed Honduras – twice, killing thousands – but that brush with disaster drove him to eventually become an atmospheric physicist who has even flown through storms for work.

Martinez-Claros, who is now a PhD Candidate at the Physics Department of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, says during Hurricane Mitch, his mother picked him up from school and they raced home over bridges perched on surging rivers.

“I praise my mother’s nerves of steel for being able to get us home, with half of the road that had already become a downhill river,” he said.

Arriving home, they turned on the television, only to see a TV reporter swept away by riverwaters during the broadcast.

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