I chose to present on hurricanes because I am from Orlando, FL and am very familiar with the danger of these storms. The top left quadrant includes a model of the center walls of a hurricane, presented as vectors of the wind moving in circles around the eye, where there is no wind. Notice the color key to the right, which shows that winds are strongest nearest to the ocean surface to churn up water. Below this, there are two diagrams of possible oceanic temperature cross-sections. The thicker layers of hotter water are ideal for the formation and maintaining of a hurricane, and these can relate to multivariable calculus by visually estimating the directional derivatives of the temperature.
Moving upward, fz will always be positive because the surface of the ocean is warmer than the bottom, but fzz is negative when that positive value is increasing at a decreasing rate, which is why the layers get thicker as the temperature increases. The right side of the poster is a hypothetical situation in which two neighboring hotels are experiencing a hurricane, and I use flux to calculate how much wind and rain each hotel faces.
