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 …
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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 …
UW-Madison works to expand state’s weather station network
Chris Kucharik is interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Evan Meeker was selected to receive a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship
Congratulations to Becca Hall and Evan Meeker who were selected to receive 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowships.
Paul Block selected as the next CPEP Professor
Associate Professor Paul Block from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is being selected as the next Reid A. Bryson Distinguished Professor of the Climate, People, and Environment Program (CPEP). Professor Block’s research largely …
Undergraduate student Sean Bertalot places second in the Center for Climatic Research’s Reid Bryson Scholarship poster session.
Weather station network to expand across Wisconsin, aiding farmers and others
Gisela Kutzbach, wife of former CCR director John Kutzbach, passed away in her home in Evanston, Illinois on March 23rd, 2023
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research regrets to inform of the passing of Gisela Kutzbach on March 23, 2023. Gisela is preceded in death by her husband, John Kutzbach, former CCR director and AOS …
CCR and Sage held a joint lightning talk event
On March 21, 2023, the joint CCR-SAGE Lightning Talk Event was held, with 15 speakers representing both centers.
Wisconsin cave holds tantalizing clues to ancient climate changes, future shifts
Great Lakes ice cover reaches historic low. Here’s what we know.
We’re in winter’s home stretch and the Great Lakes just reached a historic low ice cover for this time of year.
When winter gets weird: Thundersnow, frost quakes and more
An expert explains some of the stranger events caused by weather that happen in winter.
It’s mid-January and the Great Lakes are virtually ice-free. That’s a problem.
Ice has been slow to form this year, with only 3% of the lakes covered as of last Friday. That’s a near-record low, and roughly 18% below average for this time of year. Read the …
Cyclones in the Arctic are Becoming More Intense and Frequent
Climate change is warming Wisconsin winters faster than other seasons
A wetter atmosphere and slower freezing of the Great Lakes has made wintertime temperature increases in Milwaukee and Green Bay among the highest in the nation as research projects rises to continue.
Q & A: Meet Hannah Zanowski
Aaron Alexander Chaired the AMS Student Conference at the AMS Annual Meeting
The 22nd Annual AMS Student Conference occurred in Denver CO on Jan 7th and 8th , with a record breaking 750 in person and 100 virtual attendees. Conference chairs Aaron Alexander (Water Resources Engineering @ …
Steve Vavrus to lead the Wisconsin State Climatology Office
UW-Madison has received $9.3M from the USDA to establish a Rural Partnerships Institute. The 4-year award to UW-Madison will cover the costs of financing the Wisconsin State Climatology Office through CCR, the costs of a …
Steve Vavrus: “Arctic Fever? Taking the Arctic’s Temperature”
Climate Scientist Steve Vavrus joins Nate to discuss the Arctic and its critical impact on climate science. Why are the effects of warming so extreme in the Arctic, and what are the implications for weather …