An ounce of prevention is the advice TEMCO gives for cyclone prep
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A two-day Tropical Cyclone Season Workshop was held last week to educate and remind the emergency management community, media partners, and the general public a

![Participants of the two-day Cyclone Season Workshop coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security's TEMCO and the National Weather Service held at the Tradewinds Hotel last Thursday and Friday, get together for a group photo. [courtesy photo] Participants of the two-day Cyclone Season Workshop](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/7731.jpg?itok=7__fPCPy)






![Talofa Fe’a (front right) on a microalgae sampling trip in American Samoa — with Ella Ashford (front left), a 2023 Hollings scholar, and Valentine Vaeoso (back), a staff member at National Park of American Samoa. Ms Fe’a is a 2024 EPP/MSI summer intern with the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa and University of Hawai'i Sea Grant. She studied the risk of ciguatera poisoning in American Samoa. Image credit: Talofa Fe’a]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/talofa-blog_post.jpg?itok=lIqJB8HN)