Additional Campus Affiliations
State Climatologist, Illinois State Water Survey
Assistant Research Scientist, Climatology, Illinois State Water Survey
Research Assistant Professor, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
Recent Publications
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
Alexander, N., Dickinson, A., Benson, T. J., Ford, T. W., Mateus-Pinilla, N., Arneson, J., & Davis, M. A. (Accepted/In press). Waterbird disease in the United States Laurentian Great Lakes under climate change. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 50(6), Article 102450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2024.102450
Christian, J. I., Hobbins, M., Hoell, A., Otkin, J. A., Ford, T. W., Cravens, A. E., Powlen, K. A., Wang, H., & Mishra, V. (2024). Flash drought: A state of the science review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 11(3), Article e1714. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1714
Corak, N. K., Otkin, J. A., Ford, T. W., & Lowman, L. E. L. (2024). Unraveling phenological and stomatal responses to flash drought and implications for water and carbon budgets. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 28(8), 1827-1851. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-1827-2024