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5/14/2013: Steve Vavrus is featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) discussing how humans have probably been transforming land cover on a global scale far earlier in time than is commonly believed. The full article can be found here.
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5/13/2013: Congratulations to Katie Holman who successfully defended her dissertation on May 13, 2013. Her research explored atmosphere-lake interactions in the Great Lakes Basin, including the connection between Lake Superior precipitation and transient Rossby waves. |
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4/25/2013: Two UW-Madison students have been awarded Reid Bryson scholarships for 2013 from the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. Read all about the event at http://nelson.wisc.edu/news/news-details.php?e=1697. |
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4/22/2013: The La Crosse Tribune printed an article on April 22, 2013, investigating the question, "Is our extreme weather linked to climate change?" Dr. Michael Notaro was interviewed regarding climatic extremes in Wisconsin and their potential link to anthropogenic climate change. The article can be found at:
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/is-our-extreme-weather-linked-to-climate-change/article_4bd807c0-aa3f-11e2-9e65-001a4bcf887a.html. |
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4/3/2013: Nelson Institute talks about Earth Day featuring interviews with several CCR Researchers.
http://nelson.wisc.edu/news/news-details.php?e=1688. |
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3/28/2013: CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, was interviewed by host Shelley Ryan for Wisconsin Public Television's "Wisconsin Gardener" show on the topic of Wisconsin climate change and its impact on gardening. It will be broadcasted on May 23, 2013. For an early view, go to this website: http://wpt.org/gardener/transcript.cfm?id=2211.
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3/27/2013: Steve Vavrus talks about how ice loss in the polar north may deliver a frigid spring in the temperate zone. The full article can be found at http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2013/03/27/1.
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3/22/2013: The Winter/Spring issue of In Common Magazine has a special feature on CCR, its 50 years of excellence in climate research, and its evolving role in a rapidly changing world. The In Common issue can be downloaded at http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/docs/in_common/winter-spring2013.pdf.
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2/6/2013: Feng He, Anders Carlson, Zhengyu Liu and John Kutzbach publish new results in Nature exploring the drivers of last deglaciation. Read the full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/21471, or at the Nature.com website.
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1/22/2013: Ankur Desai talks about time management for the new year. Read the full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/21433.
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1/20/2013: Dan Vimont was featured in the Capital Times on the effects of climate change in Wisconsin.
Q&A: Climate change will bring dramatic effects to Wisconsin |
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1/18/2013: Check out the new Interactive Climate Change Mapping Website for the Central-Eastern North American Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs). The website is: http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/resources/data_scripts/LCC/. On this website, you can plot future projected trends in climate over central-eastern North America using downscaled climate data from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The statistical downscaling was performed by CCR Associate Scientist, Dr. David Lorenz, and the mapping was developed by CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro. Funding came from (1) the Michigan Department of Natural Resources through an EPA grant with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, (2) Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, and (3) Wisconsin Focus on Energy. |
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1/7/2013: Congratulations to Dr. Feng He who has been promoted to the position of assistant research scientist. |
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December, 2012: Final report for Focus on Energy published: Climatic Analogs, climate velocity, and potential shifts in vegetation structure and biomass for Wisconsin under 21st-century climate-change scenarios. This work was supported by the Environmental and Economic Research and Development Program and is a collaboration between the Nelson Center for Climatic Research (CCR) and the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI). |
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11/26/2012: Local news station talks to Jack Williams about climate debate.
2012 expected to be warmest year on record, brings up climate debate
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11/7/2012: Congratulations to Dr. Val Bennington who has been promoted to the position of assistant research scientist. |
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10/2/2012: Ankur Desai partners with the College of Menominee Nation to bring students into the field as climate researchers. Read the full article at http://nelson.wisc.edu/news/news-details.php?e=1608.
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9/21/2012: Sreve Vavrus talks about how the record loss of arctic ice could impact Wisconsin. Read the full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/21080.
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9/18/2012: Dan Vimont will be presenting a webinar from 11:00am to 12:00pm on September 18, 2012.
http://changingclimate.osu.edu/webinars/ |
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9/17/12: E&R MS student Jennifer Phillips was selected as a 2013 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow. Following completion of her MS in Fall 2012, she will spend from January to December 2013 working with Federal Agencies in Washington DC. Her MS thesis outlines the likely path and potential impacts of CO2 acidification of the Great Lakes. Her advisor was Professor Galen McKinley, a CCR faculty member. http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/knauss/ |
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8/27/2012: Northern Hemisphere ice sheets have behaved in two distinct ways during past deglaciations. Land-based ice sheets have responded immediately to climate warming but then retreated relatively slowly. In contrast, marine-based ice sheets have shown a lagged response to climate warming and subsequently abruptly collapsed. Both of these observations raise concern over Earth's remaining ice sheets. The present retreat of the land-based Greenland ice sheet is likely a response to global warming whereas there is prehistoric precedent for an abrupt collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet in response to human-induced climate change.
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8/13/2012 - 8/18/2012: Jack Williams co-led and co-taught at Camp PalEON, an interdisciplinary summer short course held in the WI/MI Northwoods for paleoecologists, ecological statisticians, and ecosystem modelers. This first-ever course presented an integrated curriculum in the collection, analysis, and modeling of long-term ecological data, with an emphasis on Bayesian methods for assessing uncertainty in paleoecological data and methods for assimilating it with terrestrial ecosystem models.
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7/23/2012: Professor Dan Vimont attended the Kavli Indonesian-American Frontiers of Science Symposium, held July 11-15 in Solo, Indonesia. He was featured in a UW News article talking about it which can be found
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7/23/2012: CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, was interviewed for a Clean Wisconsin blog article regarding the mild 2011-2012 winter in Wisconsin.
The blog can be found at: http://blog.cleanwisconsin.org/index.php/2012/07/23/revisiting-winter |
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7/5/2012: Dan Vimont and Jack Williams are two co-PIs on a newly funded $3 million NSF IGERT with a variety of ecology faculty across campus (led by Volker Radeloff in Forest Ecology) to provide interdisciplinary graduate training on rapid change and biodiversity.
Read the full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/20849.
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7/5/2012: Sreve Vavrus talks about the recent extreme heat and how it relates to climate changes. Read the full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/20851.
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6/25/2012: Anders Carlson is featured in an article about Greenland Ice.
Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze.
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6/14/2012: The Capital Times interviewed Jack Williams regarding a recent nature paper on ecological tipping points that he co-authored. The Capital Times article can be found here.
The original article can be found here. |
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6/6/2012: On June 6, 2012, Dr. Michael Notaro led a 1 1/2 hour seminar on "Wisconsin Climate Change" as part of the 50th Annual College Days event at UW-Madison. College Days offers an opportunity for individuals of all ages to experience college life, stay in the university dorms, and attend seminars taught by UW-Madison and UW-Extension faculty, staff, and community experts. |
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4/26/2012: Nature magazine has highlighted a recent article by Dr. Steve Vavrus and his collaborator, Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University: "Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes". The paper describes how recent Arctic warming may be affecting weather in middle latitudes and is featured in Nature as a "Community Choice" for being among the most highly viewed scientific papers recently. Go to Nature Research Highlights.
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4/24/2012: CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, was interviewed by the Badger Herald in April 2012 for the article, "Report: Wis. needs to implement climate change plans". In the interview, Dr. Notaro discussed climate change in Wisconsin and the need to develop adaptation strategies. The article can be found here.
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4/21/2012: During the weekend of April 21-22, 2012, the Aldo Leopold Nature Center had the grand opening for its new climate change exhibit. CCR associate director, Dr. Michael Notaro, and CCR professor, Dr. Galen McKinley, volunteered as experts at the grand opening. For more information on this exciting exhibit, go here.
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4/19/2012: On April 19, 2012, CCR Associate Directory, Dr. Michael Notaro, spoke on the topic of Wisconsin climate change at the State Capitol for the Wisconsin Climate Change and Jobs Forum, organized by State Representative Brett Hulsey. His presentation can be seen online here.
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4/4/2012: A news release from Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has highlighted the research of CCR postdoc, Dr. Feng He and professor Zhengyu Liu, based on the recent Nature article. This research study demonstrates the IPCC-type model to predict climate’s future can reproduce its past. |
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1/12/2012: The Monroe Times printed an article, "Snow finally on its way", which included an interview with CCR Associate Director Dr. Michael Notaro. Dr. Notaro discussed observed and projected snowfall trends and the seasonal outlook for Wisconsin and the Midwest. The article can be found here.
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1/12/2012: The Australian website, The Conversation, posted an article called, "How aboriginal burning changed Australia's climate," found here.The article discusses the research of CCR affiliate Professor Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll, CCR associate director Dr. Michael Notaro, and CCR postdoc Dr. Guangshan Chen, as found in their 2011 article in Geophysical Research Letters, found here They investigated the influence of burning practices on the landscape and consequences to the Australian summer monsoon.
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12/19/2011: CCR Director, Professor Jack Williams, was interviewed by the Atlantic about what can be earned about climate chagne from the histroical record, the imiportance of coalition research, and the methods of extracting ancient DNA to understand the response of plant and anim al species to cliamte change. The interview can be found here.
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12/6/2011: A UW-Madison press release has highlighted the research of CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, based on his December 2011 presentation at the American Geophysical Union conference. His research study relates antecedent snowpack in the Rockies Mountains to the strenth of the subsequent summer monsoon in the Southwest United States.
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11/25/2011:CCR Scientist, Dr. Steve Vavrus, was quoted in an article in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel regarding the increase in precipitation in Milwaukee during the past 60 years and why one should expect greater precipitation in a warming climate.
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10/27/2011: CCR Director, Professor Jack Williams, and Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, were cited in a "Why Files" report regarding the record-breaking drought and heat in Texas during the summer of 211 and whether these are indications of cliamte change. The article can be found here.
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10/20/2011: The University of Wisconsin-Madison website is featuring a slide show that highlights some of the research preformed by Professor Ankur Desai's research group in the northwoods of Wisconsin, available here. Professor Desai is using flux towers to measure the fluxes of carbon dioxide in and out of plants, water, and soil.
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10/10/2011:CCR Associate Director, Dr. Michael Notaro, was quoted in an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel regarding Wisconsin's autumn leaf color and climate change. The article can be found here.
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10/4/2011: Professor Zhengyu Liu was selected as a new Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He and the other new Fellows wil be inducted at a ceremony at the AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 22, 2012. Congratulations Professor Liu!
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8/05/2011: CCR Professor Zhengyu Liu was interviewed by Science Magazine for his research on glacial cycles and the response of the Indian summer monsoon. The Science article can be found here, as well as a complimentary article by the Nelson Institute here.
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