Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society Seminar Series presents Dr. Marta Clepper,

Quinnipiac Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society

Seminar Series presents

 Dr. Marta Clepper, Assistant Teaching Professor of Physical Science at Quinnipiac University

“Is a Category 6 Hurricane on the Horizon?”

Monday, October 2 at 3:00 PM in Buckman Theater (BC 150)

This talk will include discussion on hurricanes, understanding why and where they form, and a look at some historical hurricanes. Past and present trends on numbers of hurricanes and links to changes in the Earth’s climate will be examined. Finally, a look at the impacts hurricanes have on coastal communities and environments and what can be done to protect them from the dual threat of rising sea levels and increasing strengths of these storms. 

Dr. Clepper is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Physical Sciences who has been at Quinnipiac University for six years. She earned a BS in Geology at Columbus State University (Columbus, GA), as MS in Geology at the University of Texas El Paso (El Paso, TX), and a PhD in Geology at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY). She teaches Earth Sciences and Natural Disasters at Quinnipiac. She has done research on the origins of zircon minerals in the Southern Appalachians, paleoclimate from 12 million years ago in western Texas, and the lithology and sedimentary depositional history of the 450-million-year-old Lexington Limestone Formation of central Kentucky.