The Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research held its fourth annual Reid Bryson Scholarship competition on April 22, 2014, as part of the Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference. There were 28 student applicants from a diverse set of departments and centers across campus. The winner of the 2014 Reid Bryson Graduate Scholarship of $1,000 was Vijay Limaye for his presentation, "Climate change impacts on air quality and human health in the eastern U.S.” The winners of the 2014 Reid Bryson Undergraduate Scholarships were Marian Mateling and Sonia Petty. Marian’s research was on "Assessing cloud and sea ice effects on the Arctic radiation budget in the CMIP5 models,” and Sonia presented on "Effects of climate change and land cover on the subnivium, a seasonal refuge beneath the snow.”

At the Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference on April 22, 2014, there was a session held on "Climate Change Impacts in the Great Lakes Region".  The session explored the observed and potential impacts of climate change on the region's forests, wildlife, winters, and the Great Lakes themselves.  It was moderated by Professor Dan Vimont, with presentations and a panel discussion by Dr. Val Bennington, Dr. Michael Notaro, Dr. Ben Zuckerberg, and Dr. Chris Swanston.  Wisconsin Public Radio covered the session through a report on ice and lake level projections for the Great Lakes Basin, interviewing Drs. Bennington and Notaro.

Michael Mann, creator of the well-known "hockey stick" graph depicting a sharp recent increase in our planet's temperature, will deliver the fifth annual Len Robock Lecture on Thursday, April 17 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Feng He was interviewed for a news story for Nelson Institute on how early agriculture drove pre-industrial climate change, published in a recent article in Geophysical Research Letters with Steve Vavrus, John Kutzbach and co-authors.

On April 1, 2014, a panel of experts discussed how Wisconsin's hunting and fishing will be impacted by climate change at Benjamin Franklin Junior High School in Stevens Point, Wisconsin to an audience of 115 people. The panel included CCR scientist, Dr. Michael Notaro; CCR affiliate, Dr. Ben Zuckerberg; Dr. Matt Mitro of Wisconsin DNR; and George Meyer of Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.

CCR Senior Scientist Steve Vavrus talks about how more extreme Arctic cyclones are a symptom of climate change in an interview with the Nelson Institute.

Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist with the UW Center for Climatic Research, concedes that it’s been a bear of a winter, in a question and answer session with the Madison Cap Times.

Former CCR student Mike Alexander was featured in NOAA Research News about a new web portal that maps climate change effects in oceans. The new web portal that he created is helping NOAA Fisheries Service with its new process to assess how vulnerable fish stocks are to climate change.

The Center for Climatic Research will co-sponsor this year’s UW-Madison Sustainability Forum with the Office of Sustainability on Thursday, February 27 at the H.F. DeLuca Forum in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. This year’s theme will be, “Climate Change in Wisconsin: Where do we go from here?” Discussion topics will include the impacts of climate change on Wisconsin residents and how human actions, adaptation, and innovation can chart a new course forward.