Yan Yu, PhD student of Dr. Michael Notaro, was awarded a highly prestigious NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, beginning in July 2017, to continue collaboration with Dr. Olga Kalashnikova at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in studying the remote sensing of dust.

NASA EARTHDATA covered the research of Dr. Michael Notaro regarding Fertile Crescent drought and dust production and transport implications.

Galen McKinley is interviewed by local CBS affiliate, WISC-TV, News Channel 3, channel3000.com,  about the rise in temperature in 2016 and the effects of climate change and global warming associated with this.

Michael Notaro presented dynamically downscaled climate projectionsfor the Great Lakes region and potential ecological impacts at a WestonRoundtable seminar in October 2016. 

The Ice Age giants of St. Paul Island outlived those on the mainland for millennia. What finally drove them to extinction?

President Obama recently called trends in climate change "terrifying." The Nelson Institute's Galen McKinley agrees, because "human society is built on the assumption of a stable climate." In this Q&A, McKinley explains why the Earth is warming so fast, and whether there is any hope that things will improve.

The Center for Climatic Research partners with the Aldo Leopold Nature Center to create an outdoors smartphone tour of climate change and its possible effects on the plants and animals found at the ALNC and Wisconsin. 

Steve Vavrus was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio’s Climate Cast program about the recent decision by Shishmaref, Alaska, to relocate due to ongoing coastal erosion.  The combination of rising sea level, contracting sea ice cover, thawing permafrost, and possibly increased storminess has caused a dramatic loss of shorelines across the Arctic.   Around Shishmaref, located on an island in the Bering Sea, the erosion has become so severe that remaining in the village's centuries-old home is no longer viable.

CCR graduate student research assistant Jiaxu Zhang recently defended her PhD study. Her study focuses on understanding the deglacial evolution of deep Atlantic water masses in an isotope-enabled ocean model. Using the transient simulation results, she does a systematic and quantitative model-data comparison of oxygen isotopes during the last deglaciation for the first time, and emphasizes the role of dynamic warming in the deep North Atlantic during this period. The deep ocean evolution scenario proposed in this study provides a new framework for paleo-data interpretation and will guide paleoceanographers in where to collect data to help verify these hypotheses.