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Chris Tessum

@ctessum.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at UIUC ctessum.cee.illinois.edu

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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"The senior administration official said the White House appreciated that Vanilla Ice still agreed to participate in the event." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...
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Trump Urges Canceling Freedom 250 Concerts After Artists Drop Out
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I also work in this area and would be happy to talk!
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Excited to share Shiyuan Wang's paper "International trade and air-quality-related mortality" published in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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International trade and air-quality-related mortality - Nature Communications
International trade shifts part of the health burden of air pollution across countries. This study shows that about 14–18% of global deaths from fine particulate pollution—800,000 annually—are linked ...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just finished a workshop about equation-based air quality modeling using earthsci.dev at IIT Bombay! Thanks to Srinidhi Balasubramanian for hosting!
workshop group photoworkshop flierworkshop
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
In case you're working on NSF COA
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Faye McNeill @vfmcneill.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Really thrilled to share this new publication on the AMORE 2.0 algorithm 💗 This goal of this EPA-funded project was to develop an automated way to reduce the complexity of atmospheric chemical mechanisms using the principles of graph theory academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As an aside, I wouldn't necessarily use the ESS Open Archive for publishing preprints in the future. It took over two weeks for the preprint to show up on the website after we submitted i.t
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We have a new preprint out! essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... In it, Xiaokai Yang, Lin Guo and I explore a method for making atmospheric chemistry surrogate models which are guaranteed to not have exploding errors. This is a step toward generally useful machine-learned models of the atmosphere.
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Atmospheric chemistry surrogate modeling with sparse identification of mass action dynamics
Modeling gas-phase atmospheric chemistry is computationally challenging because the underlying dynamics are high-dimensional (requiring many variables) and stiff (occurring across time-scales). Previo...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Definitely relieved to learn that my work is not pursuant to their priorities.
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Xinchang “Cathy” Li @cathyxinchangli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🔔 New Master's internship opportunity 🔔 Come work with me this summer (from the comfort of your own home!) on global urban modeling at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory! Details & apply: careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/10599?l... Due Monday, April 14! More info in 🧵 [1/4]
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Masters Intern - Global Urban Modeling in United States | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL is hiring a Masters Intern - Global Urban Modeling in United States. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is not okay, Chuck.
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I think the issue is that now is not the time to be debating this. The goal of this policy is not to increase the efficiency of universities, and engaging with the policy as if it were a good-faith effort is not helpful.
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EOT End Of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org · 09/12/2024
How to Access the EOT Web Archives Visit web.archive.org Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu Type in your query term and click search Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/ #EOT2024 #EOTArchive
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Wayback Machine Collection Full Text Search
Visit web.archive.org		
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The capitol hovering menacingly in the background is a nice touch
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The paper is led by student Lin Guo. We have more impressive results in the pipeline, more coming soon! (In the academic sense of "soon".)
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In this paper we use a machine learning method called e-sindy to simplify a chemical mechanism and quantify the uncertainty introduced by the simplification at the same time.
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Atmospheric chemistry is computationally expensive to model, so we typically use simplified models when we want to study air quality across large amounts of time or space. The simplified models introduce uncertainty, but we typically aren't able to quantify that uncertainty.
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We have a new paper just published about using machine learning to estimate uncertainty in atmospheric chemistry modeling! dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Uncertainty Quantification in Reduced‐Order Gas‐Phase Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Using Ensemble SINDy
Using a simple tropospheric ozone chemistry model, we quantify uncertainty caused by simplifying the model with machine learning Compared to the deterministic simplification method, the probabili...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
1. Verify 2. ???? 3. Profit!
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Pedram Hassanzadeh @pedramh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Research scientist position on AI weather forecasting at UChicago's AI for Climate (AICE) initiative to work with me, Amir Jina, and Michael Kremer. Will work across our new Human-Centered Weather Forecasting Initiative + @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social + Climate Institute
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TC (Tirthankar Chakraborty) @tchakraborty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In retrospect, I should have started preparing this material a long time ago...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
🙋‍♂️
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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I did a bluesky thing and made a "list" of atmospheric chemists! Share with your friend and let me know if you want to be added! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
We have a new preprint led by student Lin Guo! It is about uncertainty quantification in atmospheric chemistry modeling: arxiv.org/abs/2407.09757
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Uncertainty Quantification in Reduced-Order Gas-Phase Atmospheric...
Uncertainty quantification during atmospheric chemistry modeling is computationally expensive as it typically requires a large number of simulations using complex models. As large-scale modeling...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
I was quoted in this article! www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
We have a new preprint out today! arxiv.org/abs/2309.11035 We find that replacing the advection operator with a machine-learned surrogate may help the model run faster and/or be more accurate in certain situations.
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Learned 1-D passive scalar advection to accelerate chemical...
We developed and applied a machine-learned discretization for one-dimensional (1-D) horizontal passive scalar advection, which is an operator component common to all chemical transport models...
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Chris Tessum @ctessum.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
I'm quoted in this article! (Although the quote is me saying something that pretty much everyone already knows)
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The Reach of Wildfire Smoke Is Going Global and Undoing Progress on Clean Air
In the United States, smoke from wildfires is undoing progress from the Clean Air Act. In poorer countries, the situation is even worse.
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