Civil and Environmental Engineering

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