Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season

Written By Michale Glennon

Crochet top depicting data from the NOAA billion-dollar weather and climate disaster database. Each hexagon is a year since 1980; blues (13 total) are years in which the Northeast climate region experienced a storm in the tropical cyclone category in which overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion. The 44 hexagons – one for each year in the dataset – are made in a swirl pattern reminiscent of a cyclone.  This is titled in honor of Jimmy Buffett whose song by the same name was released in 1974, and who is loved and missed very much by the maker of this piece. 

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Creator: Michale Glennon

Michale Glennon

Michale Glennon serves as the Senior Research Scientist of the Paul Smith's College Adirondack Watershed Institute. She is interested in the effects of land use management on wildlife populations in the Adirondacks and is engaged in research ranging from issues of residential development to recreation ecology to climate change. She is an ecologist and previously spent 15 years as the Director of Science for the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. At AWI, Michale works to support and help shape the scientific research program, provide high quality research opportunities for students, and distribute and champion AWI's work in order to enhance the use of science in the management and stewardship of the natural resources of the Adirondack Park.

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