A new study published this week [Nov. 25, 2019] in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by American and Israeli geoscientists and climatologists provides evidence that summer monsoons from Asia and Africa may …
Year: 2023
Weekly Watercooler: Muddy Waters STEMinist Camp – 13 December 2023
Darien Becker shares the process of designing Muddy Waters STEMinist Camp, Welty Environmental Center’s first week-long Girls in STEM summer camp, implementing GLOBE hydrosphere protocols with middle- and high-school-age girls. This program introduced campers to …
CCR’s The Sky’s The Limit STEM Camp was featured on the UW 2023 Moments in Time
Youth attending The Sky’s the Limit STEM day camp spend a whole lot of time looking down — into microscopes, at trail maps and even through the muck of Goose Creek. This camp for teenagers …
Former CCR Scientist Awarded The 2023 Milutin Milankovic Medal
The 2023 Milutin Milankovic Medal is awarded to Bette L. Otto-Bliesner for her exceptionally outstanding contribution to modelling the earth system from deep-time to glacials and interglacials, and leading pioneering work to use palaeoclimate for …
Graduate student Emily Mather is part of a team looking to maximize agricultural land by making space for solar panels.
In 2021, Wisconsin reported having 14.2 million acres of farmland. What if all that land could be used to mitigate climate change? Emily Mather, a graduate student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, is …
Experts consider future of Wisconsin at annual Climate Change Symposium
The University of Wisconsin held its 2023 Climate Change Symposium Nov. 7 at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. This year’s topic was focused on the prompt “Will Wisconsin Become a Climate Haven?” PBS Wisconsin and …
2023 Climate Change Symposium was held on November 7th
Since 2015, the Center for Climatic Research (CCR) has hosted an annual Climate Change Symposium, providing an opportunity for the UW-Madison community to learn about the effects of climate change on our natural resources and …
Q&A with Evan Meeker
Simon Goring was awarded the M. Lee Alison Award for Geoinformatics at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America
Simon Goring was awarded the M. Lee Alison Award for Geoinformatics at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. He presented the talk “Supporting Equitable Science with Open and Ethical Data Communities: …
State climatologist Steve Vavrus wants to help Wisconsin adapt as our climate changes
Vavrus was formally named the director of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office after serving leading in an interim capacity for most of the year. Also the assistant director of UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute’s Center for Climatic …