Co-authored a short analysis piece for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang about the evidence for expanding the Atlantic hurricane season. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/11/29/with-increasing-storms-atlantic-hurricane-season-needs-expand-begin-may/
I was featured in a Bucknell Magazine Q&A in the Winter 2018 issue. Check it out to hear about the 2017 hurricane season, the role of private sector meteorology, and how WeatherTiger helps clients deal with their weather- and climate- (but not earthquake-)related challenges. https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/communications/bucknell-magazine/bucknell-magazine/winter-2018/qanda-erica-staehling-07.html
I co-authored an article for Geophysical Research Letters about the recently concluded hurricane landfall drought. Check it out to learn how rare this extended period of below normal U.S. hurricane activity was from an energetic perspective. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL076071/full
Just co-authored a short analysis piece for the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang about the recent end of the U.S. major hurricane landfall drought (2005-2017). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/14/with-harvey-and-irma-americas-luckiest-ever-streak-of-low-hurricane-activity-is-over/
I co-authored an article for Geophysical Research Letters about why overall tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin is not a good indicator of the risk for hurricane landfalls in the United States. Check it out to learn about our Landfall Diagnostic Index (LDI) and how it offers physical insight into the tension between conditions likely…
A reporter from the Wall Street Journal reached out to me in February about highpointing, more specifically the quest for bagging some of America’s lowest peaks. Ryan (husband) ended up giving the interview, since I was barely a few days postpartum and originally thought it was some sort of phishing scheme in my delirium. But…
I have a new practitioner piece out in The Science Teacher! Check it out to learn all about blackbody radiation, why most demonstrations of the greenhouse effect get it wrong, and how it really works. http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/tst15_082_09_50
Since the original is so unwieldy, my dissertation is now available in convenient “Wordle” form! I am scheduled to defend the real thing next week, on Monday December 8, 2014.
Erica Staehling, Ph.D. 