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I am currently Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science at Purdue University in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Before starting at Purdue, I was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, and I received my PhD in Atmospheric Science from MIT and B.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Applied Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between undergrad and grad school, I studied abroad in Montpellier, France, spent a summer as a volunteer teacher in Tamale, Ghana, interned at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and worked as a research associate at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD while living in Washington DC. Before my post-doc I went on a beautiful 2-month road trip across the western U.S.. There's a lot outside of science that inspires me, from podcasts like Imaginary Worlds ("how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief") and 99% Invisible, and creative people like Antoni Gaudi, Donald Glover, Kishi Bashi, Andrew Bird, Lizzo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ali Wong, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michel Gondry, Justin Willman (Magic for Humans), Anthony Bourdain (RIP), and curious children everywhere. I talk about some of this in this Climate Scientists podcast episode with Dan Jones. My wife Laura is Senior Lead Analyst at CB Insights, and we have a fearless toddler daughter Maya and infant son Sam. I'm ethnically ambiguous. A life goal of mine is to do a crossword puzzle scratch-off ticket in all 43 states that offer them.
Dan Chavas
Purdue University
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
550 Stadium Mall Drive, HAMP 3221
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Email: drchavas @ gmail dot com
Twitter: @drchavas
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AMS STAC Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones
The Science of Global Warming