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Quinton Lawton, PhD

@quintonlawton.com
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Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Science at Northern Illinois University. Casual runner, Houston-sports fan, and T1D.

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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 17/07/2026
This week I moved to the Chicago suburbs for my new job, and decided to take the train into downtown yesterday. Ended up wearing a KN95 and trying to stay inside as much as possible all day, as the PM2.5 smoke pollution from the wildfires was absolutely insane.
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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 30/07/2025
This paper also reflects an update to our easterly wave tracker, which now has been updated to work in the eastern Pacific. We also have produced tracks for both ERA5 and MERRA2. A climatology is shown below. The software is available as a python module (via pip). github.com/qlawton/QTrack
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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 31/05/2025
As always, thanks for this. Just want to add that the NSF request document also has detailed info on proposed cuts to major facilities like NCAR (40% cut). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 12/01/2025
Hi #AMS2025 folks! On my way after a friend's beautiful wedding yesterday. I'll be giving two talks back-to-back Monday, January 13th, in the MJO/Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability session from 9:30-10am! If you don't mind listening to me talk about tropical waves for 30 minutes, come stop by!
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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 27/11/2024
I’m learning that my productively is inversely related to the snow rates outside.
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Quinton Lawton, PhD @quintonlawton.com · 18/11/2024
After a few days out of town, I’m back in the office this week with a lovely view of the Flatirons… a great distraction from all of the work I need to get done 😅
view of the Boulder Flatirons from an office window
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