Daniel Horton
@danethan.bsky.social
Earth System, Climate, Atmospheric, and Air Quality Scientist; Interdisciplinary! – impacts, extremes, hazards, equity, solutions, etc. – Prof @ Northwestern U; USAF 15WX Veteran; https://sites.northwestern.edu/danethan/
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? 🧪
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
Watts-to-wheel comparison of the air quality, health, and equity impacts of light-v. heavy-duty vehicle electrification in the U.S. Midwest - IOPscience
Watts-to-wheel comparison of the air quality, health, and equity impacts of light-v. heavy-duty vehicle electrification in the U.S. Midwest, Lang, Victoria A, Camilleri, Sara F, Montgomery, Anastasia,...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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? 🧪
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
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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
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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
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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
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.
trib.al
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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
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🎉 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
Follow along as we share updates, opportunities, research, and collaborations! 🌎✨ #CLaSH #NSF
September 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry
jobs.ethz.ch
August 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
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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
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.
trib.al
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
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🚨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...
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...
August 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨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...
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...
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...
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...
doi.org
July 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
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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.
trib.al
July 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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
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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...
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.
chicago.suntimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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...
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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
https://trib.al/JW78ku9
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.
trib.al
July 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
https://trib.al/JW78ku9
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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.
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.
www.chicagotribune.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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.
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In the neighborhoods where Black residents were hit hardest by Chicago's 1995 heat wave, many systemic disparities remain unaddressed.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...
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...
insideclimatenews.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In the neighborhoods where Black residents were hit hardest by Chicago's 1995 heat wave, many systemic disparities remain unaddressed.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/1707202...
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.
New in @science.org: Natural hazards aren’t “one and done.” They alter the landscape, changing the likelihood of follow-on events. We argue there’s an urgent opportunity for geomorphologists—working with other disciplines—to better understand and forecast cascading hazards.
Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system
This Review synthesizes progress and outlines a new framework for understanding how land surface hazards interact and propagate as sediment cascades across Earth’s surface, influenced by interactions ...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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.
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*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.
*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.
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.
yaleclimateconnections.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
*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.
*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.
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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.
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.
apnews.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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a whole lot of people have no idea what a luxury it is to simply Walk To The Store
I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store
May 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
a whole lot of people have no idea what a luxury it is to simply Walk To The Store
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Citing cuts at the Nat'l Institutes of Health, a top science journal has stopped accepting submissions. The journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, has long published peer-reviewed studies without charging fees & has received NIH support. The journal has been around for >50 years
Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions
With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Citing cuts at the Nat'l Institutes of Health, a top science journal has stopped accepting submissions. The journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, has long published peer-reviewed studies without charging fees & has received NIH support. The journal has been around for >50 years
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NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It was announced today that I received Northwestern University's Presidential Fellowship- the most prestigious award given to doctoral students by the university. I’m deeply humbled to be included in such an inspiring group of scholars.
April 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It was announced today that I received Northwestern University's Presidential Fellowship- the most prestigious award given to doctoral students by the university. I’m deeply humbled to be included in such an inspiring group of scholars.
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Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
April 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
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🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Research.gov :: GRFP
www.research.gov
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
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Having a soundbite on my local NPR station was not on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are! I'm thrilled that findings from our recent study are reaching more people and showing how emission reduction policies can lead to tangible benefits for Chicago communities.
www.wbez.org/the-rundown-...
www.wbez.org/the-rundown-...
Morning News: Monday, March 24, 2025
The Chicago-based American Library Association says a recent executive order could make it harder for rural Americans to access the internet. A new library cart at a Lurie Children’s outpatient center...
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March 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Having a soundbite on my local NPR station was not on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are! I'm thrilled that findings from our recent study are reaching more people and showing how emission reduction policies can lead to tangible benefits for Chicago communities.
www.wbez.org/the-rundown-...
www.wbez.org/the-rundown-...
Victoria Lang's (@victorialangwx.bsky.social) community-inspired study, Assessing the air quality, public health, and equity implications of an Advanced Clean Trucks policy for Illinois, is now available open access for mass consumption journal.hep.com.cn/fesci/EN/10....
Assessing the air quality, public health, and equity implications of an Advanced Clean Trucks policy for Illinois
<p>Policies designed to reduce transportation emissions are known to be co-beneficial due to reductions in planet-warming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and health-harmful air p...
journal.hep.com.cn
April 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Victoria Lang's (@victorialangwx.bsky.social) community-inspired study, Assessing the air quality, public health, and equity implications of an Advanced Clean Trucks policy for Illinois, is now available open access for mass consumption journal.hep.com.cn/fesci/EN/10....