Congratulations to AOS faculty and adjunct faculty, Ankur Desai, Till Wagner, Paul Stoy, and Jack Williams, who received Research Forward awards. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (OVCRGE), …
Year: 2023
The flash drought of 2023: Ideas and resources
The UW-Madison Division of Extension Crops and Soils team hosted a webinar featuring Steve Vavrus.
Ángel Adames-Corraliza Receives NSF CAREER Award
AOS Assistant Professor Ángel Adames-Corraliza has been selected as a recipient of the 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. This distinguished grant supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role …
Q&A With Steve Vavrus, Wisconsin’s New Climatologist
CCR’s Steve Vavrus spoke with Successful Farming about adjusting to the role, technology’s increasing role in climatology, and more.
CCR Hosted the GLOBE Midwest Student Research Symposium in April
CCR hosted the Midwest GLOBE Student Research Symposium in April 2023, bringing approximately 70 middle and high school students, teachers, and GLOBE partners to the UW-Madison campus. View a photo slideshow, assembled by Anica Graney:
Steve Vavrus was a speaker at the “Ethics, Urgency & Climate Journalism” conference at UW on April 28th
Steve Vavrus was an invited speaker at the “Ethics, Urgency & Climate Journalism” conference at UW on April 28th. He gave a 20-minute presentation, “Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Scratching Beneath the Surface,” which addressed aspects of …
CCR Professor and Student win AOS Awards
Congratulations to Hannah Zanowski for receiving the Graduate Student Association Teaching Award and to Nicolas Sartore for receiving the Ettenheim Scholarship Award.
UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies begins to mark Earth Day
Today, the UW’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies begins to mark Earth Day, the ecological holiday created by the institute’s namesake, UW grad Gaylord Nelson LLB’42. Traditionally, Earth Day is April 22, but the UW …
New Release: Range Mapper, Animated Maps of Species Distributions
We’re excited to announce the release of [Range Mapper](https://geography.wisc.edu/ran…) and its publication [George et al.,2023, Open Quaternary](https://openquaternary.com/art…) Range Mapper presents a new set of online interactive and animated maps of the changes in plant (and …
Christian Andresen wins NSF Career Award to study Arctic emissions
Christian Andresen, an assistant professor of Earth system geography in the College of Letters and Sciences, is using cutting-edge technologies like drones, gas-monitoring systems and virtual reality to measure and visualize the effects of climate …