Dr. Feng He was interviewed for a news story for LiveScience, related to pre-industrial global temperature increase from early agriculture, published in a recent article in Geophysical Research Letters with Steve Vavrus, John Kutzbach and co-authors.

Dr. Steve Vavrus’ Geophysical Research Letters paper "Extreme Arctic Cyclones in CMIP5 Historical Simulations” was selected as an American Geophysical Union Research Spotlight, appearing in both the on-line edition of Geophysical Research Letters as well as in a column for EOS, the weekly AGU magazine. In his paper, Dr. Vavrus writes, "Winter in the Arctic is not only cold and the dark—it is also storm season…”

Dr. Notaro's research, based on developing mid and late 21st century snow and winter severity projections, was the focus of a UW-Madison news release, an interview by WKOW-TV, an interview by the Public News Service, and an interview by NBC-15 News.

Dan Vimont, Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) co-chair, says the decentralized 250-member organization has moved into its second phase, emphasizing two-way communication focused on university research and its application in communities.

Galen McKinley and Dan Vimont spoke at an informational forum: “Climate Change: What it Means for Wisconsin’s Economy and Natural Resources," hosted by Representatives Fred Clark (D) and Jeff Mursau (R) of the Wisconsin Legislature and co-hosted by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts & Letters. The forum agenda stated, “The purpose of the forum [was] to begin the discussion of how a changing climate affects Wisconsin’s many natural resources and, consequently, Wisconsin’s business practitioners that depend on these natural resources.”

Dr. Michael Notaro presented on the topic of "21st Century Projections of Ameliorated Winter Conditions, Yet More Intense Snowstorms, Across the Central-Eastern North American Landscape Conservation Cooperatives" in a webinar in November 2013 for the Science Team for Climate Change and Forests.

On October 18th, 2013, CCR celebrated its 50th anniversary. It was an extremely successful and well attended event hosted at the Fluno Center. 

In October 2013, Dr. Notaro taught at a climate data workshop at The Wildlife Society Workshop, in which he presented the use of 4 softwares (ncview, NCO, ncdump, and NCL) for manipulating netcdf data, particularly focused on the recently-developed statistical downscaling product for the central-eastern North American LCCs (Landscape Conservation Cooperatives).

In October 2013, Dr. Notaro spoke at The Wildlife Society Conference in Milwaukee on the topic of North American snowfall projections and implications to wildlife, particularly dabbling ducks and white-tailed deer.