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.

Feng He, Anders Carlson, Zhengyu Liu and John Kutzbach publish new results in Nature exploring the drivers of last deglaciation.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Associate Professor and Graduate Program Chair Ankur Desai didn’t always bother with managing his time. That changed in a hurry when, as a graduate student, he had his first child. 

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.

In a Q&A with the Capital Times, Professor Dan Vimont talks about the variation in weater patterns and global warming.

Congratulations to Dr. Feng He who has been promoted to the position of assistant research scientist.

"Climatic Analogs, climate velocity, and potential shifts in vegetation structure and biomass for Wisconsin under 21st-century climate-change scenarios" was published. 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).

UW-Madison professor Jack Williams, director of UW's Center for Climatic Research, says he's not surprised to see the potential for a record-breaking year. Williams says it's something we should expect to see over the next several decades as temperatures keep rising.

Congratulations to Dr. Val Bennington who has been promoted to the position of assistant research scientist.