IU experts available to comment on Hurricane Ian aftermath

Professor Beth Gazley specializes in U.S. nonprofit management and civil society policy. She has published more than 85 research articles, books, and commentary addressing intersectoral collaboration, volunteerism, nonprofit governance, public service coproduction, association management, disaster response, and other topics. Gazley’s current work on climate change preparedness in the nonprofit sector can be found here: Indiana Natural Disaster Preparedness Study,“Nonprofit Disaster Response and Climate Change: Who Responds? Who Plans?” in Nonprofit Policy Forum, and the working paper “Are Community Philanthropic Organizations Planning for Climate Change?”

Chanh Kieu is an associate professor in earth and atmospheric sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. His research currently focuses on the application of machine learning to understand hurricane intensity and prediction, trying to answer the question: How far in advance can you predict hurricane intensity?

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. O’Brien researches extreme weather and climate change, and he can talk about how climate change might have impacted Hurricane Helene, as well as what changes in hurricanes we might expect in the future.