Danielle Touma
Research Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Danielle Touma is a Research Assistant Professor at the UT Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. Danielle received her PhD at Stanford University in Earth System Science advised by Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh. Danielle was advised by Dr. Samantha Stevenson as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara, and then by Drs. Clara Deser and Jim Hurrell as an ASP Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Colorado State University. Danielle studies the impact of climate variability and human activity on the characteristics of extreme climate events, specifically extreme fire weather and extreme precipitation. She uses observational datasets and large ensemble Earth system model simulations to quantify changes and underlying uncertainties of extreme climate events and compounding events under a warming climate. She also works with ecologists and anthropologists to understand the impacts of and adaptation to extreme climate events on local to regional scales. Danielle is currently serving on the National Academies committee for the Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts.
