About the Authors

Eugene C. Cordero

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

eugene.cordero@sjsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San José State University, San José, California, United States of America

Diana Centeno

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San José State University, San José, California, United States of America

Anne Marie Todd

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Communication Studies, San José State University, San José, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EC is the majority owner of Green Ninja, an education company that produces middle school curriculum. A conflict of interest plan has been established through San Jose State University. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in our guide for authors http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/competing-interests.