Daniel Horton

🚨🧑🏼‍🔬I’m hiring a postdoc to start in the fall! Come join our growing group here in Bloomington, Indiana.

Please apply if you’re interested in climate impacts, extreme heat and health, climate change attribution and any related topic.

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Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.

New research - #airpollution from home wood burning in the US leads to about 8600 premature deaths a year

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wood burning in homes drives dangerous air pollution in winter Thousands of U.S. deaths per year linked to particulate matter from wood smoke

NU press release here: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.

New research out today in #ScienceAdvances, in which Kyan Shlipak et al. explore the health impacts of burning wood for heat across the U.S. Of note: ~8600 premature deaths w/ more urban impacts than expected, disproportionate impacts to POC www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars

How do you make rollback of clean air regulations pass a cost-benefit test? Don't count any of the benefits!

People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

Critical Temperature Thresholds for Identifying Vulnerability to Heat‐Related Excess Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality | Journal of the American Heart Association

🚨New research, led by Dr. Peter Graffy, that identifies temperature thresholds in Chicago associated with increased CVD and coronary heart disease mortality – published in Journal of the American Heart Association @ahajournals.bsky.social, w/ Drs. Ben Barrett, Abel Kho, & Nori Allen

People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.

Pleased to share new research from @victorialangwx.bsky.social that computes differences in air quality & GHG changes between heavy- and light-duty vehicle electrification scenarios. I.e., for our electric transition, which vehicle type should we prioritize w/ incentives? 🧪

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CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Chicago moves a step closer to neighborhood air-pollution monitoring A network of almost 300 air sensors installed across the city is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The pollution data are expected to be made public next year.

Chicago completed installation of 277 pollution sensors and said it will make data publicly available early 2026, allowing residents to get a detailed look at air quality in their own neighborhoods. trib.al/d0US9Pe

🎉 It’s official! Today, we announce the launch of CLaSH: Center for Land Surface Hazards an NSF supported initiative to advance the science of cascading geohazards to enable a resilient society.

Follow along as we share updates, opportunities, research, and collaborations! 🌎✨ #CLaSH #NSF

Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry

Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Chicago aims to have largest number of air-pollution monitors in the U.S. The city is racing to put up 277 sensors. Once installed, Chicago will have the biggest number of high-quality air monitors in the country, a model that rivals only London.

Chicago is racing to put up 277 air-pollution sensors by the end of summer as city officials try to get a handle on the poor air quality that severely affects the polluted Far South Side, Southwest Side and West Side neighborhoods. trib.al/2zr9ghn

The Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (https://earth.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Earth Surface Dynamics, with an emphasis on near-surface geophysics. We seek a scientist whose research addresses the physical, chemical, and biological processes that shape the Earth’s surface and near-surface environments—processes that influence water resources, landscape evolution, ecosystem health, and the mitigation of natural hazards. The full-time, 9-month (academic year) tenure-track faculty appointment is at the Assistant Professor level with a target start date of August 16, 2026. We are particularly interested in candidates who use near-surface geophysical methods—such as seismic, potential field, geodetic, and/or remote sensing techniques—to investigate shallow subsurface structures and link surface processes to deep-time geological or climatic phenomena. We welcome applicants whose work integrates field-based geophysical observations with computational or mathematical modeling, and fosters interdisciplinary connections across hydrology, geomorphology, critical zone science, atmospheric sciences, and engineering. Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive. They will also advance the educational mission of the University of Illinois, a land-grant institution committed to access, education, research, and service and to addressing challenges at both local and global scales.

🚨Job Alert🚨
We're hiring in the broad area of *Earth Surface Dynamics Geophysics*

Please help me advertise this (rare) opportunity for a full-time tenure track assistant professorship.

illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Regional landslide hydrometeorology framework

The methods presented in this study are innovative and interesting, but there's still lots of work to be done to advance the methodology, much of which is outlined in the Discussion section, so please have a look :)

Water balance framwork

In this study she applies these methods to a California case study, i.e., the December 2022 to January 2023 parade of 9 consecutive landfalling atmospheric rivers that caused 100s of landslides across the state.

Landfall locations of atmospheric rivers, location of reported landslides, and precipitation info

Chuxuan's thesis, funded by an NSF PREEVENTS award, explores methods to integrate regional hydrological modeling into land surface hazard research. Chuxuan developed a water balance framework that provides a means to assess hydrological conditions relevant to landslide events over a regional domain.

Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential Meteorologically informed hydrologic modeling and K-means clustering improve understanding of widespread landslide triggers A regional-scale water balance analysis from process-based modeling off...

Pleased to share the final chapter of Dr. Chuxuan Li's PhD thesis, "Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential" now published in @agu.org's GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

Northwestern University researchers studied tens of thousands of data points to figure out who is most likely to get sick or die from extremely hot weather and will present 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives. https://trib.al/1MvHweu

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly Chicago heat wave that killed more than 700 people. The city still has work to do to protect its residents. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Chicagoans want more greenspace, worker protections ahead of heat waves, survey finds Thirty years after a heat wave left more than 700 people dead, Northwestern researchers asked residents to rank solutions for the city to improve planning before extreme heat hits.

Chicagoans said in a survey that they want the city to plant more trees and create additional greenspace, protect outdoor workers and provide more cooling centers during extreme weather.
https://trib.al/JW78ku9

Chicago creating index to identify neighborhoods most vulnerable to heat waves Tool shows history of heat-related deaths, demographics, land use and air conditioning access across communities.

The tool shows which Chicago neighborhoods are at the highest risk during heat waves, based on not only their history of heat-related deaths but also on several other factors, including demographics, land use and air conditioning access.

30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem - Inside Climate News CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she’d known since she was a child had been found dead on the steps of a church...

In the neighborhoods where Black residents were hit hardest by Chicago's 1995 heat wave, many systemic disparities remain unaddressed.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...

Change in mean wet day intensity; Continental U.S.

Change in frequency across intensities; Continental U.S.

Observed Changes in Daily Precipitation Intensity in the
United States -> doi.org/10.1029/2022...

Thanks for sharing Patti. Glacial lake outburst flooding, in Alaska and elsewhere, are indeed on our radar. Lots indicating an upward trend. Also–credit where due–I did not write The Conversation piece, that was Brian Yanites (@geomorphyuggs.bsky.social; also lead author of the Science paper).

Happy to have provided a climate and atmospheric science perspective to this review in @science.org w/ @geomorphyuggs.bsky.social et al. Climate change-driven alteration of hydrological processes is fundamentally changing how we need to think about hazards and their long tailed consequences.

Chicago environmental justice group calls for transition to electric trucks » Yale Climate Connections Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

*500 fewer premature deaths.
*600 fewer kids developing asthma.
That’s the impact clean trucks could have each year in Chicago, according to recent research.
🎙️ We break it down in our latest segment.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states.

After 16 states + D.C. sued the Trump administration for blocking funds dedicated to public #EV charging stations—approved in *2021* under President Biden—a federal judge has ordered the administration to release billions of dollars in funding for the build-out of those chargers ... in those states.

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In the PacNW, the remedy is to rub spores from sword ferns on the affected area.