Three interns, Raven Regenold, Liam Flanagan, and Bennett Donovan, from Beloit Memorial High School completed their Spring 2022 internships at Welty Environmental Center, Beloit under the guidance of Welty staff, Darien Becker and Aaron Wilson. The internship was …
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The Center for Climatic Research will be running a free summer STEM camp for autistic middle and high school-aged kids
The Center for Climatic Research, in partnership with the Welty Environmental Center, Achieving Collaborative Treatment, School District of Beloit, and Beloit College, will be running a free summer STEM camp for autistic middle and high school-aged kids in …
WICCI releases assessment report, ten years in the making
The Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI), a nationally recognized collaboration of scientists and stakeholders working together to help Wisconsin policymakers and citizens understand the impacts of climate change, has released an assessment report that …
Tristan L’Ecuyer selected as 2021 Outstanding Alum
Congratulations to Tristan for being named 2021 Outstanding Alum from the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University!
Federal funding extends Great Lakes climate adaptation research and engagement at U-M, MSU
Researchers at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, College of Menominee Nation, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded $5.4 million from NOAA to continue their study of climate change and variability risks in the Great …
Tristan L’Ecuyer Receives CSU Department of Atmospheric Sciences Alumni Award
Tristan L’Ecuyer has received the 2021 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Colorado State University. Recipients of the Outstanding Alumni Award are former students who, by their distinguished careers and …
CCR leaders awarded Department of Energy funding to study connection between aerosols and historical climate variability
Leaders from the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research (CCR) will begin investigating the role of clouds and aerosols (small particles in the atmosphere, such as sulfate or dust) in historical climate variability thanks to …
GLOBE Research Done in the Time of COVID: Students Showcase Their Work
Michael Notaro (CCR), Rose Pertzborn (CCR), Janet Struble (University of Toledo),David Bydlowski (Wayne RESA), and Kevin Czajkowski (University of Toledo), the co-directors of the Midwest GLOBE/ESS Collaborative, led the GLOBE Midwest ESS Virtual Science Symposium …
Welty Environmental Center receives geoscience funding
Michael Notaro received NSF funding to help foster diversity and inclusion in STEM, as it relatesto race/ethnicity and neurodivergence, within K-12 schools in Beloit in collaboration with the School District of Beloit, Beloit College, the Welty …
Nelson affiliate Jim Kossin’s research shows hurricanes are getting stronger
Kossin’s research shows that over the last four decades the likelihood a hurricane would be categorized as major intensity has increased by 25 percent.