2025 Internship Project Overview

During this internship I explored the visualization of forecasting hurricanes, including refining the website as well as reading scholarly journals about previous research. For the website, I was able to use my coding skills to add a page called storm list, where the users could filter as well as view respective year and detailed information for each storm. In addition, for the visualization of the storm path, I refined it so that each dot, which represents a location point, is adjusted in color according to the wind speed particular to that specific location. This way, it informs the users that the wind speed is changing by location, avoiding the misconception that the wind speed would be constant throughout the period. When it comes to research, I read papers regarding methods of visualization and presentation of hurricanes, which helped me to better understand common misunderstandings and their implications. Overall, through this internship I was able to improve my coding skills and my environmental awareness especially in hurricane and hazard predictions.

ORGANIZATION/RESEARCH GROUP

Hurricane Hazards and Risk Analysis Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

LOCATION

Princeton, New Jersey

 

Interns

Nancy Dai ’28
Major: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
"The most interesting thing about this internship to me is how directly I was able to see the values I added on, as the visualization improvement and user experience were improved immediately."

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Ning Lin
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering