IU experts available to comment on Hurricane Ian aftermath

Professor Beth Gazley is co-founder of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute and co-principal investigator on the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge initiative at IU. Her focus is on civil society and philanthropic behaviors related to climate change adaptation.

Chanh Kieu is an assistant professor of atmospheric science at IU Bloomington and a member of the Environmental Resilience Institute steering committee.

Cody Kirkpatrick is a senior lecturer in atmospheric science at IU Bloomington. He conducts research and teaches courses in weather and weather forecasting, with primary interests in thunderstorms and the extreme phenomena they produce. He can speak about the weather forecasts leading up to the eclipse and how clouds may play a role in viewing the eclipse.

Matt Link is associate vice president of research technologies at IU and the creator of “Spider-Link,” a piece of mobile technology used to share and manage information from multiple locations collected by disaster assessment units following major storms. The equipment will be used on the ground by emergency responders from Indiana Task Force One, who have been dispatched to assist during Hurricane Florence. A volunteer firefighter for over 10 years with the Benton Township Volunteer Fire Department,

Travis O’Brien is a professor in the IU Bloomington Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Research in his group focuses on understanding what controls weather and climate phenomena that impact human and natural systems. He and his group specialize in using a combination of numerical models, novel data analysis techniques, and fundamental theory to form and test hypotheses about what controls the physical characteristics and occurrence of weather patterns, from fog to extremes.