Climate Scientist Daniel Swain

397 Hutchison Drive,Davis CA 95616

05 April, 2023

Description

"Climate complexity" -- the nuanced spatial and temporal characteristics of our planet’s response to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will be among the topics of a discussion hosted by the UC Davis Institute of the Environment April 5, 2023. Researcher Daniel Swain will be the featured speaker at the free event, which will take place 4-5 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the UC Davis Student Community Center. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Part of Swain's work includes examining regional climate extremes in the American West as a result of climate change. "As a climate scientist, I study the dynamics and impacts of the Earth’s changing climate system. I’m especially interested in how climate change is affecting the character and causes of regional climate extremes—including the atmospheric processes responsible for droughts, floods, and wildfires," according to Swain's profile on the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability website. "My recent work seeks to understand the changing spatiotemporal character of precipitation, including the rising risk of droughts and 'megafloods' in a warming climate," according to the profile. "In addition, my colleagues and I have recently embarked on multiple research projects focused on understanding the climate-related factors driving the recent surge in wildfire severity in California and across the broader American West. A collective aim of both these research tracks is to develop empirically-supported approaches to natural hazard mitigation that benefit both society and the environment in an era of increasing climate whiplash." Swain holds joint appointments as a climate scientist within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, a research fellow in the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and as the California Climate Fellow at The Nature Conservancy.