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Jobs aren't returning as fast for women and women of color

The jobs market is slowly recovering, but not so much for women and women of color

Areas of Mosul still under siege, but signs of life return

Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. support, have retaken one side of the city of Mosul.

Areas of Mosul still under siege, but signs of life return

Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. support, have retaken one side of the city of Mosul.

FGCU paleoclimatologist, Dr. Jo Muller, with a core sample taken after Hurricane Ian

FGCU researcher uses geological evidence to determine the frequency of major landfalling hurricanes

When it comes to gauging how risky it is to live where major hurricanes sometimes make landfall, the most important thing to know is what’s called the ‘return period.’ That is the estimated average time between such storms. But, because historic records only go back so far scientists use other ways to determine how frequent major storms have occurred in the past. One such technique is called paleoclimatology — or more specifically in the case of massive storms like Hurricane Ian, paleotempestology.We meet one of these scientists who is doing this kind of research work right here in Southwest Florida. Dr. Jo Muller is a paleoclimatologist and a Professor in the Department of Marine & Earth Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University. She studies past tropical cyclone activity by collecting core samples from lagoons and bays behind Southwest Florida’s barrier islands.