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 …
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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 …
Human Migration Route Out of Africa Tracked Monsoons
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 …
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 …