Daniel Horton

Daniel Horton

Climate Action Workshop

Climate scientist, assistant professor, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University, Daniel Horton will participate in the Climate Action Workshop of Summit Session 4 on November 6, at 10:45am central time.

Daniel Horton’s Biography

Daniel Horton is an assistant professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University. He is a climate scientist with research interests that include: climate impacts and extremes, detection and attribution of recent climatic change, and co-beneficial mitigation actions.

Prior to Northwestern, Daniel was a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, earned his PhD in geological sciences at the University of Michigan, and obtained bachelors degrees in atmospheric science from Texas A&M and physics from Tulane University. Between undergraduate and graduate stints he served five years in the U.S. Air Force as an operational weather officer.