Media Coverage of Storm Surge Study by Ning Lin and Michael Oppenheimer Featured After Hurricane Sandy

Nov. 21, 2012

Professor Ning Lin, lead author along with Woodrow Wilson School Professor Michael Oppenheimer and other scientists at Princeton and MIT, recently published a study, "Physically based assessment of hurricane surge threat under climate change", using New York City as a case study.  In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, this study is significant to future research on the effects of climate change.  Check out the following media coverage:

Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University: http://wws.princeton.edu/news/viewstory.xml?id=4130

The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/in-all-probability-climate-change-and-the-risk-of-more-storms-like-sandy/265402/

New Jersey Times: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2012/11/princeton_researchers_warn_sto.html

Global Possibilities Organization: http://globalpossibilities.org/how-likely-was-hurricane-sandy/

LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/24496-hurricane-sandy-new-york-future-superstorms.html

Bloomberg News: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/new-york-taxis-as-empty-as-streets-as-sandy-shuts-city.html

Energy, Security, Climate: http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2012/11/01/how-likely-was-hurricane-sandy/

The Policy Journal: http://policyjournal.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/in-search-of-higher-ground-storm-surges-may-plunge-farther-inland-as-the-earth-warms/

The Sieve: http://the-sieve.com/2012/11/03/sandys-effects-on-nyc-predicted-by-two-recent-studies/

Science blogs: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/10/31/peer-reviewed-research-predicted-nyc-subway-flooding-by-sandy/#comment-97630