The science of meteorology and one of its obscure scientific subsets was the topic of our most recent Brainstorm question. Paleo means ancient.
Tempest means storm.
Wayne Night, from Lynn, Massachusetts sounds like he's a paleotempestologist. Paleotempestologists also try to determine the probability of catastrophic hurricanes striking in the future. This cutting-edge field of research is still relatively new, and dating prehistoric hurricanes is not an exact science. Scientists say they can be off by anywhere from 20 to 100 years. The further back they go, the more they can predict what could be in store for us in the future.