{"id":37735,"date":"2025-04-22T15:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37735"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:53:14","slug":"geomodels-guy-furman-alum-prince-unpacks-tropical-storm-helene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/geomodels-guy-furman-alum-prince-unpacks-tropical-storm-helene\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Geomodels guy,&#8217; Furman alum Prince unpacks Tropical Storm Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus Phillip Prince, aka &#8220;the geomodels guy&#8221; on YouTube, studies landslides for a living as part of Asheville, North Carolina&#8217;s Appalachian Landscape Consultants. He crafted a 28-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oBuJxHR4ycY\">video<\/a> on YouTube to help people understand the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, which became Tropical Storm Helene. The video went viral, netting nearly 530,000 views. Prince, a 2004 Earth and environmental sciences graduate, spoke to reporter Greg Parlier of <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainx.com\/news\/the-story-behind-a-geologists-viral-tutorial\/\">Mountain Xpress<\/a>. He said his goal is to build models of what happened with Helene to help people be more prepared for the next super storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Prince &#8217;04 is on a quest to keep viewers engaged while breaking down complex geological phenomena. In a video-gone-viral, he explains how Tropical Storm Helene was able to quickly unleash a torrent of catastrophic mudslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,6,3377,2032],"tags":[3380,3041,3378,3379,3031],"class_list":["post-37735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-mountain-xpress","category-youtube","tag-debris-flow","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-landslides","tag-mudslides","tag-tropical-storm-helene"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37751,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37735\/revisions\/37751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}