Also wonderful to see this NSF mission – investing in the next generation of geoscientists – persist.

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Elated to announce a banner NSF GRFP year for my lab group: Grad student Anna Oehlerking, ugrad researcher Kyan Shlipak (MIT bound), and incoming grad student Maggie Gonzalez were all selected. Proud of these amazing young scientists, and honored to work with them.

Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why.

Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Using novel clinical informatics methods, we identified clinical features predictive of HECV and created a nomogram with strong time-dependent discrimination. This provides a scalable method and measurement tool to stratify patient-level vulnerability during extreme heat periods.

We developed and validated a computational phenotype of exposure-anchored cardiovascular vulnerability (HECV) by linking health record data with high-resolution temperature metrics.

Extreme heat is a growing climate threat that increases cardiovascular vulnerability, but there are few tools to identify patients most vulnerable during periods of heat exposure.

This is the Graphical Abstract of Heat and hearts: An exposure-anchored computational phenotyping framework for assessing cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat

🚨🧪🚨New research from Dr. Peter Graffy, just published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics: Heat and hearts: An exposure-anchored computational phenotyping framework for assessing cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat. 🔥+❤️=❤️‍🔥&🥵 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

New review on the role of soil moisture in compound hazards led by Chuxuan Li, just out in Nature Geoscience #meteo #hydro #geo 🌧️🌲🗻🔥🧪

The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards - Nature Geoscience Soil moisture drives critical land–atmosphere interactions and compound hazards. Closing gaps in data and models is key to integrating soil moisture into predictive frameworks for improved hazard fore...

New review led by Chuxuan Li (UCLA) on The Critical Role of Soil Moisture in Compound Hazards, out today in @natgeosci.nature.com. w/ @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social, @yannquilcaille.bsky.social, and many more

Literature is consistently inconsistent in this regard. An attempt at consistency: doi.org/10.1088/2634... But my own group has likely been inconsistent across pubs.

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.

The study itself can be found open access here: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org

Any chance you could share that NEJM reference @mermansteve.bsky.social?

🚨🧑🏼‍🔬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.

indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32142

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? 🧪

doi.org/10.1088/2752...

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

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 :)