Our newsletter offers snapshots into activities from the past year, including recaps from our biggest events, a look at our center’s outreach initiatives, and an overview of exciting research initiatives.
Year: 2024
Expanding climate science through hands-on learning
Through university outreach, students at New Lisbon Middle and High Schools will get hands-on climate science and research experience. In November, Dr. Michael Notaro, director and senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic …
Graduate students, Rudra Thaker and Evan Meeker, co-chaired the 2024 Graduate Climate Conference in Park Forest, Washington in November 2024.
Graduate students, Rudra Thaker and Evan Meeker, co-chaired the 2024 Graduate Climate Conference (https://graduateclimateconference.github.io/) in Park Forest, Washington in November 2024. The entire conference is organized by graduate students. Taydra Low also served on the organizing committee …
Rising warm temperatures across Southern Wisconsin creating climate change concerns
According to UW Madison Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department Professor Jonathan Martin, September to October of 2024 is the second warmest it’s been since 1938. Martin studies the world’s air flow and said climate change …
Michael Notaro presented his work on GLOBE-inspired autism STEM camps to the United Nations General Assembly.
On September 17, 2024, Michael Notaro presented his work on GLOBE-inspired autism STEM camps to the United Nations General Assembly.
NASA Mission Gets Its First Snapshot of Polar Heat Emissions
NASA’s newest climate mission has started collecting data on the amount of heat in the form of far-infrared radiation that the Arctic and Antarctic environments emit to space. These measurements by the Polar Radiant Energy …
The world’s largest iceberg is stuck twirling in an ocean vortex
Till Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies how ice interacts with climate, said he has never seen a real-life example of this phenomenon on such a massive scale.
The fate of Lily’s Classic: Will climate change ruin this campus tradition?
For years, Lily’s Classic has been held on a frozen solid Lake Mendota. Now, the lake can barely freeze over. Will the yearly tradition be lost to climate change?
Field of Dreams … and Solar Panels
As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, sophomore Liz Sanchez Garcia investigates how solar panels and their changing light conditions can be a good thing for plants, renewable energy and career …
Jon Martin was one of three campus faculty highlighted by Chancellor Mnookin at New Student Convocation for their ability to inspire students.
Jon Martin was one of three campus faculty highlighted by Chancellor Mnookin at New Student Convocation for their ability to inspire students. His instruction of “Weather and Climate” was called one of the best 100-level …
Elizabeth Maroon Receives NSF CAREER Award
AOS Assistant Professor Elizabeth Maroon has been selected as a recipient of a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her project, “Signals from the Deep: The Influence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the …
Dan Wright and Line Roald Selected for Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Awards
Fourteen professors, including Dan Wright and Line Roald, received Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Awards, recognizing research and teaching excellence in faculty who are relatively early in their careers. The award provides flexible research funding …
Several CCR members received AOS awards
The following CCR members received AOS this semester: Graduate Student Association Teaching Award – Liz Maroon AOS Department Student Service Award – Emily Mather Ettenheim Scholarship Award – Nicolas Sartore Francis P Bretherton Scholarship Award …
Dan Wright and Min Chen both received American Family Insurance grants.
Nine UW–Madison data science research projects with applications to both the insurance industry and society have been selected for funding through the American Family Funding Initiative. The UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American …
UW-Madison Units Partner to Provide Long Term Support for the Wisconsin State Climatology Office
UW–Madison Extension is partnering with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and its Center for Climatic Research (CCR) as well as the College of Letters and Science’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) by …
The Student Research Symposium, Was Held on Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at the Beloit Public Library.
The Beloit Memorial High School Student Research Symposium, was held on Wednesday Apr 24, 2024 at the Beloit Public Library. High schools presented their GLOBE research projects, supported by Michael Notaro’s NSF GEOPAths grant. The students will …
Jack Williams Shares His Opinion With Newsweek
Last month, Wisconsin ended its warmest winter ever recorded and second-shortest lake-ice season. As a result my colleagues and I have been fielding a raft of media inquiries. Is it true that sugar maple sap …
UW–Madison Earth Fest offers education, inspiration, motivation with nearly 50 campus events
The UW–Madison Office of Sustainability and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies are launching UW–Madison Earth Fest, a new, campus-wide celebration of the environment and sustainability that will run from April 19-26, 2024. Almost all …
Are we breaking the Atlantic Ocean?
A recent paper in Science Advances outlined a scenario where, given enough ice melting into the North Atlantic, average temperatures in cities like Bergen, Norway, could drop 15 degrees Celsius (a bone-chilling dip of 27 …
CCR’s Nikaan Koupaei-Abyazani was one of 14 UW-Madison Fulbright award winners
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has recognized UW–Madison as one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of students selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which …
CCR affiliate, Hannah Zanowski, was awarded the UW Provost’s Exceptional Service Award
CCR affiliate, Hannah Zanowski, was awarded the UW Provost’s Exceptional Service Award for her tireless advocacy and going above and beyond in program development for undergraduate research experiences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including leadership of the STORM REU.
How ’bout that weather we’re having? A Q&A with Wisconsin’s State Climatologist.
According to Steve Vavrus, the State Climatologist and a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, this December was Wisconsin’s warmest on record. In Madison, the capital city’s biggest …
Feng He discussed with The Washington Post the repercussions of the Greenland ice sheet melting on the North Atlantic Ocean currents
Feng He explained that it’s not too unexpected that the rapid loss from the Greenland ice sheet since 1990s has not affected the North Atlantic ocean circulation so far. The amount of freshwater from the …