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 Students for Sustainable Tourism

SST engages undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciplines in understanding and promoting sustainable tourism by providing first hand experience in the field through creating service, community outreach, and professional development opportunities.

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  NC GreenTravel

If you own or manage a lodging, restaurant, park, entertainment or other travel-oriented business, the NC GreenTravel website will provide you with information to help you become more competitive in the green travel arena.Whether your facility is in the mountains, the piedmont, or the coastal area of North Carolina, we can help you go green and save green!

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For more information contact Tom Rhodes at the NC Division of Environmental Assistance and Outreach at (919) 707-8140, or Alex Naar the CST's Director of Outreach at (252) 737-1346

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Climate, Weather, and Tourism

Scott Curtis

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Assistant Director, Center for Natural Hazards Research

Atmospheric Science Laboratory

Brewster A-232

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC 27858

Voice: 252-328-2088

FAX: 252-328-6054

curtisw@ecu.edu

Community Outreach Interests

I am interested in the interrelationship between climate variability and tourism. As assistant director of the Center for Natural Hazards Research, I promote and participate in research and outreach with the goal of reducing the harm caused by natural and human forces to life, business, and the environment.

Research Interests

Overall, my research interests are in tropical meteorology and global precipitation variability, using remotely sensed satellite data. I have written extensively on predicting and describing the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and its global impacts. I am also investigating the summertime climatology of precipitation over Central America and the Caribbean Sea. Current and future work includes connecting climate variability and change to extreme precipitation and applying that to hydrologic responses and flooding. In that vein, I wrote a paper reassessing the Hurricane Floyd flood with satellite, radar, and gauge data.

Notable Publications

  • Curtis, S. (2008). El Niño–Southern Oscillation and global precipitation. Geography Compass, 2(3), 600–619.
  • Curtis, S. (2008). The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and extreme daily precipitation over the US and Mexico during the hurricane season. Climate Dynamics, 30(4), 343–351.
  • Curtis, S, Crawford, T. W., & Lecce, S. A. (2007). A comparison of TRMM to other basin-scale estimates of rainfall during the 1999 Hurricane Floyd flood. Natural Hazards, 43(2), 187–198.
  • Curtis, S. (2006). Developing a climatology of the South's 'other' storm season: ENSO impacts on winter extratropical cyclogenesis. Southeastern Geographer, 46(2), 231–244.
  • Wuensch, S., Ast, J., & Curtis, S. (2004). The 2004 hurricane season: Impacts in North Carolina. North Carolina Geographer, 12, 34–40.

Courses

  • GEOG 6540: Advanced Coastal Storms (section on local perceptions of storms and forecasts).
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