Join us for a conversation with Porter Fox, prolific journalist and climate and travel writer. Fox is the author of Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans that Feed Them. The book follows sailors and scientists around the world as they track and study warming in our oceans and the resulting amplification of hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones and freak weather on a scale never seen before. His previous books include The Last Winter (2021) and Northland (2018).

Of the book, Publishers Weekly said, “By combining gripping accounts of sailing voyages through raging storms with fascinating background on how climate scientists are studying extreme weather, Fox delivers a report that’s as entertaining as it is informative.”

Co-sponsored by the NYS Writers Institute, the Office of Sustainability, DAES, NYS Mesonet and the Honors College.