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Uncovering the mysteries of ancient hurricanes | Across the Sky podcast
We’re decoding ancient hurricanes’ traces on the seafloor—and evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is not good news for the coast
Hurricane Bob struck 30 years ago. Scientists unsure how climate change will alter Atlantic hurricanes?
When our time comes, will the Cape and Islands be looking at something a lot bigger and stronger than Bob, or Carol, or the Hurricane of ’38 or even the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635?
The ghosts of ancient hurricanes live in Caribbean blue holes
South Andros Island, part of the Bahamian archipelago, is a sandy slice of paradise whose shores conceal buried geological treasures: blue holes. Hiding in the depths of these ethereal submarine sinkholes lay ancient sediment sandwiches whose layers betray the bygone passages of powerful hurricanes.
In the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, Secrets of Hurricanes Past
Researchers have assembled a 1,500-year history of hurricanes in the Bahamas, based on sand and shell fragments pulled up from submarine caverns known as blue holes.
Scientists have discovered stormquakes, where earthquakes and hurricanes collide
The study says that stormquakes are actually a fairly common occurrence, but they just sounded like seismic background noise and went undetected.
The History of Ancient Hurricanes Is Written in Sand and Mud
Over the past year and as a student fellow in 2017, I have been working with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Jeffrey Donnelly, who uses sediment cores—tubes of sand and mud layers that are extracted from coastal lake beds—to track ancient cyclones in the Atlantic and, recently, in the islands of the South Pacific.
Up All Night- Atlantic hurricanes
BBC radio host Rhod Sharp and Jeff Donnelly of WHOI’s Coastal Research Lab trace the history of hurricanes in the Atlantic and discuss the frequency of intense storms. New sediment records indicate that historically unprecedented levels of intense hurricane activity impacted the eastern seaboard of the United States and northeastern Gulf Coast in the last two millennia.
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Nova: Killer Hurricanes
features the work of Jeff Donnelly
‘Killer Hurricanes’ reconstructs the past to predict storms of the future
features Jeff Donnelly
Scientist Shares Knowledge Of Three Recent Hurricanes
features Steve Jayne
Meet the researcher uncovering the mysteries of ancient hurricanes
features Jeff Donnelly
Scientists put underwater drones to work during Hermine to research hurricanes
reprint of Associated Press article featuring Glen Gawarkiewicz
Scientists are using underwater drones to predict hurricanes
reprint of Associated Press article featuring Glen Gawarkiewicz
History of Hurricanes in New England
mentions talk Jeff Donnelly is giving on January 27, 2016 a the South Shore Science Center
NYC risks future flooding during hurricanes
mentions Jeff Donnelly and WHOI
HEAVY WEATHER
promotes Jeff Donnelly’s talk, “History of Hurricanes in New England.”
Nature Series
mentions Jeff Donnelly’s talk, “History of Hurricanes in New England” on Jan. 27 at South Shore Natural Science Center
What Paleoclimatology Might Tell Us – Editorial
mentions Jeffrey Donnelly’s work on past hurricanes, climate