Hi, I’m Aaron Kruskie!

I am a PhD candidate in Atmospheric Science at Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. I’ve been at Purdue since 2021, working with Prof. Daniel R. Chavas as part of the Extreme Weather Laboratory. My research is on the expansion of hurricane environments in warmer climates of Earth’s future and past, and how ocean basin setup controls it.

I am broadly interested in how climate change affects extreme events (e.g. hurricanes, extreme precipitation, heat waves) using a broad range of different climate models, from machine learning to coupled atmosphere-ocean GCMs. I am particularly interested in modeling Earth’s past paleoclimate to better constrain our future weather, and better understand regional variability in risk.