Colloquium

3:00pm - 4:00pm, Title: Nor'easters, Hurricanes, storm surge & the Earth's rotationPresenter: James Pringle, Professor – Earth Sciences Department - UNHHost: Per Berglund, Professor – Physics & Astronomy Department - UNH Abstract: With increasing frequency, winter storms in New England have created damaging floods -- "storm surges." Existing estimates of the magnitude of this flooding have been based on Hurricanes, and these estimates do not perform well when used to predict the damag...