High school students work with FGCU researchers to combat climate change
Two-year grant from Southwest Florida Community Foundation supports work
By Annie Hubbell
The global pandemic will go down in history as the defining event of 2020. But it was also a year of extreme weather events that caught the attention of Florida Gulf Coast University researchers and their high school protégés.
Raging wildfires consumed large parts of the U.S. west coast and Australia. The Atlantic hurricane season ended with a record-breaking 30 named storms, forcing weather forecasters well into the Greek Alphabet to name them. The year 2020 is also on track to be one of the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.