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Katharine Hayhoe is an adjunct research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois but resides in Texas, where she is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University. She is also a co-PI at the Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Chicago.
Katharine’s research addresses the potential impacts of human activities on the global environment, through numerical model simulations of the earth-atmosphere system for both global and regional climate, as well as chemical transport and integrated assessment modeling. Much of her work is driven by the need to communicate the urgency of climate change and its impacts at the regional scale to those who will be most impacted by them. To that end, she has led regional climate assessments for the state of California, for the U.S. Northeast, and most recently, for the city of Chicago, to determine the potential impacts of climate change on human health, the economy, agriculture, water resources, and other important aspects of the environment we live in.
Her studies, published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Climatic Change, and Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, have resulted in her work being cited by the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, presented before Congress, and highlighted by state and federal agencies in support of actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
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