Daniel Wright, PhD

Biography

Daniel Wright is the Arno Lenz Memorial Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research, teaching, and outreach focuses on extreme rainfall, floods, and how both are influenced by meteorology, urbanization, and climate change. His work has been supported through numerous research grants including a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center and a National Science Foundation CAREER, while his research achievements have been recognized via an American Geophysical Union Early Career Award and a Science and Technology Project of the Year from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He co-founded the Infrastructure Working Group within the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts and is a co-author on the 5th National Climate Assessment, which provides a comprehensive overview of climate change and its past, present, and future impacts on the United States. He is the founding site director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Convective Storms, a new partnership between Northern Illinois University, UW-Madison, the National Science Foundation, and nearly a dozen major insurance companies.