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RSMAS Students Inducted Into Honor Society

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The University of Miami’s Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL), an honor society for graduate and professional school students, recently inducted Nancy Muehllehner, Angela Colbert, and Sean Bignami, all students here at the Rosenstiel School.

AEL was founded in 1990 by former officers of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) specifically to honor academic excellence and leadership by graduate and professional school students. There are now thirty chapters across the United States. The mission of Alpha Epsilon Lambda is to:

- Confer distinction for high achievement
- Promote leadership development
- Promote scholarship and encourage intellectual development
- Enrich the intellectual environment of graduate educational institutions
- Encourage high standards of ethical behavior

The Beta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Lambda at the University of Miami was chartered on April 27, 1992. Its members are selected from a pool of nominees who meet the following criteria:

- Is a graduate, law, or medical student, or an alumnus, administrator, faculty or staff member
- Is in the top 35% academically in his/her class
- Has completed a minimum of nine credits towards a graduate degree
- Has shown exemplary leadership and character, including service to the University of Miami graduate student body and service in the public interest at large

-Andrew DeChellis
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How Will Climate Change Affect Hurricanes?

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Before Tropical Storm Fay (2008)

One area of hot debate is how climate change will affect hurricanes. Some people have the image that things will only get worse with hurricanes becoming stronger, more frequent and making landfall on the US coast more often. However, current scientific research is working to obtain a better estimate on what exactly the impact of climate change will be on hurricanes. The latest scientific consensus has emerged to show that there is a projected decrease in hurricane frequency for the Atlantic and that the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes will have increased wind speeds by 5-10 mph and will occur slightly more frequently (Knutson et al. 2010). Thus, for a given season there will be fewer storms, but the ones that do form have potential to be ever so slightly stronger.

During Tropical Storm Fay (2008)

While all this information is important, what about where they will go? Will climate change have a large impact on where hurricanes make landfall? To answer this question, I am looking at changes in tracks from differences in the atmospheric circulation and genesis location (where a storm forms) in a future climate. As with the other hurricane-related impacts, results suggest minor changes in tracks to occur for the Atlantic. There is a projected decrease of ~2-3 storms per decade over the Western Caribbean and Southern Gulf of Mexico and a slight increase in tracks that stay over the open ocean. So, what does that mean for the US East and Gulf coasts? It tells us that for June through November, the coasts will still be vulnerable to the threat from hurricanes.

-Angela Colbert
Graduate Student
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
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