Campus News

Weathering hard times

In an article about the southeast U.S.’s vulnerability to climate change, the Chattanooga, Tenn. Times-Free Press quoted Marshall Shepherd, an associate professor or geography, who is working on a project to improve forecasting of regional climate change.

“I took the last 56 years of temperature and precipitation data,” Shepherd said. “It maps areas of warming and drying,” and will help with future modeling projections.