Daniel Wright

Position title: Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: danielb.wright@wisc.edu

Research Summary

My research, teaching, and outreach focuses on extreme rainfall, floods, and how both are influenced by meteorology, urbanization, and climate change. My team’s work has been recognized through awards from the National Science Foundation, the American Geophysical Union, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. I cofounded the Infrastructure Working Group within the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, and was 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. My team’s pioneering work on probabilistic rainfall and flood hazard has formed a centerpiece of FEMA’s Future of Flood Risk Data, a multi-billion-dollar initiative to provide up-to-date and future-looking flood hazard and risk nationwide.

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