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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 …

On September 17, 2024, Michael Notaro presented his work on GLOBE-inspired autism STEM camps to the United Nations General Assembly.

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 …

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.

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?

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. His instruction of “Weather and Climate” was called one of the best 100-level …

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 …

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 …

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 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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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.

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In 2021, Wisconsin reported having 14.2 million acres of farmland. What if all that land could be used to mitigate climate change? Emily Mather, a graduate student in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, is …