Callahan, C.W., Trok, J.T., Wilson, A.J., Gould, C.F., Heft-Neal, S., Diffenbaugh, N.S., & Burke, M. "Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur." Nature Climate Change, 1-7. (2025). [Article Link]
Callahan, C., Trok, J.T., Wilson, A., Gould, C., Heft-Neal, S., Burke, M., & Diffenbaugh, N.S. "Quantifying the contributions of climate change and adaptation to mortality from unprecedented extreme heat events." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122, e2503577122 (2025). [Article Link]
[Preprint] Harris, M. J., Trok, J.T., Martel, K. S., Cordova, M. J. B., Diffenbaugh, N. S., Munayco, C. V., ... & Mordecai, E. A. (2024). "Extreme precipitation, exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change, drove Peru’s record-breaking 2023 dengue outbreak." medRxiv. [Article Link]
Trok, J.T., Barnes, E.A., Davenport, F.V. & Diffenbaugh, N.S. "Machine learning–based extreme event attribution." Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3242 (2024). [Article Link]
Rastogi, D., Trok, J.T., Depsky, N., Monier, E. & Jones, A.D. "Historical evaluation and future projections of compound heatwave and drought extremes over the conterminous United States in CMIP6." Environ. Res. Lett. 19, (2023) [Article Link]
Trok, J.T., Davenport, F.V., Barnes, E.A., Diffenbaugh, N.S. "Using machine learning with partial dependence analysis to investigate coupling between soil moisture and near‐surface temperature." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (2023) [Article Link]
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2025, New Orleans, LA
[Talk] Large-scale circulation patterns regulate the response of extreme
atmospheric river events to global warming
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2024, Washington D.C.
[Talk] Quantifying uncertainty in extreme event attribution using neural networks
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA
[Talk] Machine learning-based extreme event attribution
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL
[Talk] Using machine learning with partial dependence analysis to investigate
coupling between soil moisture and near‐surface temperature
Stanford University 2021 – present
PhD, Earth System Science (expected 2027)
University of California – Davis 2017 – 2021
BS, Atmospheric Sciences
BS, Applied Mathematics
American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship 2021 – 2022
Atmospheric Sciences Departmental Award, University of California – Davis 2021
Regents Scholar, University of California – Davis 2017 – 2021