Scott Turner, reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, wrote a feature article about the NMT research project to study hurricane formation in the tropics.  Turner interviewed Zeljka Fuchs-Stone at length for the feature. 

Here is an excerpt from the article. Click the link at the bottom to read the full article. 

NM Tech team flies into storms

As Hurricane Dorian churns off the East Coast, threatening the Carolinas, a group of New Mexico Tech professors and students are focusing on the tropical storms that may form in the next few days in the Caribbean or off the Central American coast in the Pacific.

(Pictured at right is Zeljka Fuchs-Stone conducting an open house in Costa Rica aboard the NSF research plane.) 

And they aren’t sitting around watching the Weather Channel or checking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website looking for information.

Since early August, they’ve been hopping on planes – sometimes with hurricane hunters – and flying into tropical depressions and tropical storms to learn more about how hurricanes form.

“Our team is not directly involved in studying Dorian by flying into it, but our friends, the NOAA hurricane hunters that we flew with two weeks ago, are,” said Zeljka Fuchs-Stone, research professor and director of New Mexico Tech’s Climate and Water Consortium. “They have flown into Dorian seven days in a row, sometimes twice a day.”

 

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