Radley Horton — Climate Resilience and Complexity in Urban Contexts
The Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) at NYU Tandon welcomes you to attend the lecture "Climate Resilience and Complexity in Urban Contexts" by Radley Horton, professor at Columbia University’s Climate School. This event, hosted as part of the Fall 2025 Research Seminar Series, will be held in Room 1201 at 370 Jay Street.
About the Lecture
Climate Resilience and Complexity in Urban Contexts
Cities share a common future of more frequent and severe climate hazards. These changing hazards interact with city-specific stressors, trends, and adaptive capacity. Recognizing this, municipal officials, scientists, private industry, and civil society have worked to make cities more climate-resilient. Simultaneously, there is growing awareness of how complexity presents challenges and opportunities in risk assessment. For example, hazards and risks are correlated in space and time, in ways that are changing rapidly as the planet warms; impacts are increasingly cascading across sectors; and mitigation and adaptation solutions are rapidly modifying the risk landscape. This talk will explore science-to-action challenges, discussing how emerging climate science and climate impacts understanding can dynamically interact with innovations in the climate solutions space.
About the Speaker
Radley Horton is a Professor at Columbia University’s Climate School. His research focuses on climate extremes, tail risks, climate impacts, and adaptation. Radley was a Convening Lead Author for the Third National Climate Assessment. He currently is the Principal Investigator for the NOAA-Climate Adaptation Partnerships-funded Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast. He is also the Columbia University lead for the NSF Funded Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) and the Department of Interior-funded Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center. Radley has served on numerous national and international task forces and committees, including the Climate Scenarios Task Force in support of the 2018 National Climate Assessment, and he often appears on national and international television, radio, and in print. Radley also teaches/is developing graduate courses on climate risk assessment.
Visitor Information
This event will be held in Room 1201 at 370 Jay St. Directions and a campus map is available here on the NYU Tandon website. Advance registration through Luma is required for campus access at NYU for external guests.
About the Urban Science Research Seminar Series
The Center for Urban Science + Progress’s annual Research Seminar series features leading voices in the growing field of urban informatics examining real-world challenges facing cities and urban environments around the world. The Fall 2025 series is organized by Assistant Professors Graham Dove, Yuki Miura, Qi Sun, and Takahiro Yabe.