653447 external_news 1638827236 1638827236 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended December 2nd, and while the number of named storms did not reach the record-breaking levels of 2020, the impacts nevertheless were catastrophic. The Atlantic Ocean still had an above-normal number of hurricanes in 2021, for the sixth year in a row. It was also the third most active season since record-keeping began in the mid-19th century. Susan Lozier, College of Sciences Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, says there is more energy available, so "intensification of these hurricanes is expected." Lozier, a physical oceanographer, is also president of the American Geophysical Union. 

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