Dan Chavas

Welcome!

News:

• We are looking for a post-doc interested in climate and extreme weather! Check out our ad for more information, and contact Dan at dchavas@purdue.edu to apply or answer questions.
• Two exciting new papers related to tropical cyclones in Earth-like atmospheres are out for Early Online Release (EOR): 1) Dynamical aquaplanet experiments; 2) Dry and semi-dry tropical cyclones.
• New paper is out applying Bayes' Law directly to data to estimate statistical effects of small-scale terrain variability on tornadoes, led by undergraduate researcher Zhanxiang Hua.

I am currently Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science at Purdue University in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. My group is called the Climate and Extreme Weather Laboratory. We research the physics and impacts of extreme weather in our atmosphere, including hurricanes and tornadoes, and their dependence on climate. Here is a bit of insight into the philosophy behind our research.

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. Outside of science, I enjoy gardening, tennis, photography, biking, running, and attempting to bake the perfect loaf of bread. My wife is Vice President of Retail, Sales, and Shopper Practice at Kantar Consulting, and we have a newborn daughter Maya.