Trenton Wayne Ford

Assistant Research Scientist, Climatology

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Research Scientist, Climatology, Illinois State Water Survey
Research Assistant Professor, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Recent Publications

Garcia, H. C., Graffy, P. M., Barrett, B. W., Visa, M. A., Jia, J., Mallen, E., Mansour, R., Briggs, G., Ford, T., Wuebbles, D. J., Allen, N., Horton, T. H., Kho, A., & Horton, D. E. (2026). Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods. GeoHealth, 10(8), Article e2025GH001651. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GH001651

Gibson, C., Sible, C., Mashange, G., Becker, T., Gucker, D., Peng, B., Ford, T. W., & Ngumbi, E. (2026). Keeping Pace With Intensifying Agricultural Field Inundation Events: A Framework for Testing the Mitigative Capacity of Current Best Management Practices. Global change biology, 32(4), Article e70842. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70842

Ford, T. W., Muth, M. F., Woloszyn, M., Widhalm, M., Wilson, A. B., & Todey, D. (2025). Advancing Climate Services Toward the Fulfillment of Sustainability Goals. In T. L. Killeen, D. J. Wuebbles, & J. E. Lane (Eds.), Pathways to Sustainability: Collaborative Solutions for a Resilient Future University of Illinois Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/136245

Ford, T. W., Chen, L., Fernandez, E., Wahle, E., Luedeling, E., Todey, D., & Nowatzkie, L. (2025). Historical and Projected Changes in Chill Accumulation and Spring Freeze Risk in the Midwest United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 368, Article 110532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110532

Lisonbee, J., Parker, B., Fleishman, E., Ford, T. W., Bocinsky, R. K., Follingstad, G., Frazier, A. G., Hoylman, Z. H., Hudson, A. R., Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Umphlett, N. A., Wickham, E., Bamzai-Dodson, A., Fontenot, R., Fuchs, B., Hammond, J., Herrick, J. E., Hobbins, M., Hoell, A., ... Pulwarty, R. (2025). Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate. Earth's Future, 13(3), Article e2024EF005276. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005276

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