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After six-consecutive months of abnormally wet conditions in Wisconsin, the flip to a historically dry May represents “weather whiplash,” at least for precipitation.

Although conditions in the state are nowhere near extreme or severe drought levels, interim state climatologist Steve Vavrus said conditions are still dry. Sunday’s rain amounted to just 0.12 inches around some parts of Madison, …

Steve Vavrus, a climatologist with UW-Madison, is calling the situation in the Badger state ‘weather whiplash’ when it comes to precipitation departures.

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 …

CCR’s Steve Vavrus spoke with Successful Farming about adjusting to the role, technology’s increasing role in climatology, and more.  

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 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 …

Congratulations to Hannah Zanowski for receiving the Graduate Student Association Teaching Award and to Nicolas Sartore for receiving the Ettenheim Scholarship Award.

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 …

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, 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 …

Chris Kucharik is interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Congratulations to Becca Hall and Evan Meeker who were selected to receive 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowships.

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 …

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 …

On March 21, 2023, the joint CCR-SAGE Lightning Talk Event was held, with 15 speakers representing both centers.

We’re in winter’s home stretch and the Great Lakes just reached a historic low ice cover for this time of year.

An expert explains some of the stranger events caused by weather that happen in winter.

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 …