Background
About & CV
Climatologist specializing in extreme heat — measurement, modeling, microclimatic variability, and operational health-outcome tools.
Bio
Who I am
I'm Jordan Clark, PhD — a climatologist specializing in extreme heat, based in Durham, NC. I co-founded Klimo Insights, where I serve as Chief Climatologist. I also consult for the GEO Secretariat's Global Heat Resilience Service, Duke's Global Health Institute, the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at the Nicholas Institute, and the NCDHHS Climate and Health Team.
My work focuses on wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) research and forecasting, heat-stress indices linked to health outcomes, hyperlocal monitoring, and building climate-health data systems that inform real-world policy.
Outside of research, I'm a dedicated plant grower — I breed tomatoes (year 5), propagate raspberries, blackberries, and tropical plants, and run Plants by J.
Experience
Current roles
Project Consultant — Global Heat Resilience Service (GHRS)
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Secretariat, hosted by WMO
Conducting climate-health evidence synthesis, supporting comparative analysis of urban heat-health assessment approaches, coordinating international workstreams, and engaging stakeholders including WMO, C40 Cities, and IBM.
Co-Founder & Chief Climatologist
Klimo Insights
Building WBGT forecasting tools, hyperlocal heat monitoring systems, and climate-health data platforms. Developing operational heat-stress indices linked to health outcomes.
Environmental Program Consultant
Climate and Health Team, Occupational and Environmental Health — NCDHHS Division of Public Health, Epidemiology Section
Validating and improving North Carolina's Heat Health Alert System used by NCDHHS and NC.gov, including alert performance, warning communication, message framing, and the public-facing presentation of heat information.
Consultant Data Scientist & Climatologist
Duke Global Health Institute — CGHI
Building analytic infrastructure for climate-health research across a global observatory network. Developing data harmonization pipelines, climate data tools, and reproducible research workflows.
Consultant
Heat Policy Innovation Hub — Duke Nicholas Institute
Developing policy-facing climate indicators and heat-stress tools for the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability.
Founder & Owner
Plants by J (plantsbyj.com)
Sharing unique plants through Plants by J — tomato breeding (year 5), propagating raspberries, blackberries, and tropical plants. Built the full-stack e-commerce platform.
Skills
Technical toolkit
Climate & Heat
Languages
Data & Geo
Web & Cloud
Education
Academic background
PhD in Geography
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill