Video Library

View recordings of past events on topics ranging from climate change to environmental justice. The library includes videos from Nelson Institute signature events such as Earth Day, as well as seminars hosted by our research centers.

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Year	Date	Title	Speakers	Series	Topic
2024	April 23, 2024	Rising Methane Emissions from Boreal-Arctic Wetlands	Min Chen	Earth Fest 2024	Climate change,Ecology
2024	April 19, 2024	Earth Fest 2024 Business and Sustainability Panel	Ashley Henderson, Louis Liu, Brett Wetzel	Earth Fest 2024	Sustainability
2024	April 19, 2024	With Urgency and Intention: The Arc of Environmental and Energy Justice	Tony Reames	Earth Fest 2024	Energy,Environmental justice
2024	March 14, 2024	Sustainable Success - Supply Chain Sustainability	Keith Agoada, Holly Gibbs	Sustainable Success	Agriculture and food,Sustainability
2024	February 15, 2024	Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land	Taylor Brorby		Environmental culture/history
2023	May 4, 2023	Decadal Lessons Learned: The Story of Wildfires, Air Quality, and Environmental Justice	Joseph Wilkins	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Health,Air quality
2023	April 27, 2023	On the Swamp: Stories of Indigenous Environmental Justice from North Carolina’s Coastal Plain	Ryan Emanuel	Weston Roundtable	Environmental culture/history,Environmental justice
2023	April 13, 2023	Brazil’s Challenges in the 21st Century: How to Face Deforestation, Conserving Biodiversity and Promoting Sustainable Development	Fabio Feldmann	Weston Roundtable	Sustainability,Climate change,Land cover and forests,Public policy
2023	April 6, 2023	Fidelity in Zero-Deforestation Cattle Supply Chains	Marin Skidmore, Marcos Barrozo, Holly Gibbs, Lisa Rausch	Weston Roundtable	Agriculture and food,Sustainability,Public policy,Land cover and forests
2023	March 30, 2023	Why Waste a Good Opportunity? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Resource Recovery and Carbon Capture	Kevin Orner	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Built environment,Sustainability
2023	March 23, 2023	Batteries and Electrification: Is It Sustainable?	Eric Dresselhuys, Mathy Vathanaraj Stanislaus, Emily Pickrell	Sustainable Success	Energy,Climate change,Sustainability
2023	March 15, 2023	This Land is Our Land: Native Lands Partnerships in Conservation	Starlyn Miller	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Environmental justice
2023	March 2, 2023	The Role of Sea Ice in the Climate System and Why it Matters	Till Wagner	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Water resources,Ecology
2023	February 21, 2023	Participatory Research for Resilient Regional Seed Systems	Julie Dawson	Weston Roundtable	Agriculture and food,Sustainability
2023	February 9, 2023	Improving Heat Preparedness in Wisconsin Through a Health-Based Warning System	Elizabeth Berg, Sara Pabich, Becky Rose	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Health
2023	February 2, 2023	Security and Its Role in Achieving Sustainability	Patrick McDaniel	Weston Roundtable	Sustainability
2022	December 12, 2022	Data-Driven Modeling of Wetland Methane Fluxes from Sites to The Globe	Gavin McNicol	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2022	December 8, 2022	Deep Mitigation Pathways Underlying the Science-Policy Interface of Climate Change	Matt Gidden	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Public policy
2022	December 1, 2022	Adapting Our Infrastructure to Changing Rainfall - It's Complicated	Rob Montgomery, Daniel Wright, Greg Fries	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Built environment,Public policy
2022	November 29, 2022	Tropospheric Ozone Concentrations at Eddy Covariance Towers: Monitoring and Studying Tropospheric Ozone with Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes	Anam Khan	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change
2022	November 17, 2022	After Environmentalism	Ted Nordhaus	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Energy,Public policy
2022	November 3, 2022	Energy Systems: How They Work and Why It Matters	John Perkins	Weston Roundtable	Energy,Climate change
2022	November 2, 2022	The Material Elements of Enslaved People’s Mobility — The Way to Freedom	Christy Hyman	Everyone’s Earth: Conversations on Race and Environment	Environmental culture/history,Environmental justice
2022	November 1, 2022	Short-Term Dynamics and Long-Term Trajectories of Algal Blooms in Lakes	Grace Wilkinson	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Water resources
2022	October 27, 2022	The Extractive Realities Behind Low-Carbon Infrastructures	Alexander Dunlap	Weston Roundtable	Public policy,Energy
2022	October 20, 2022	Sustainable Development: From Concept to Curriculum	Larry Bove	Weston Roundtable	Sustainability
2022	October 18, 2022	From Plants to Planets: Land Surface Effects on Global Climate	Marysa Laguë	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Land cover and forests
2022	October 13, 2022	Improving Agricultural Sustainability with Cutting-Edge Technologies	Yi Wang	Weston Roundtable	Agriculture and food,Sustainability
2022	October 6, 2022	Clear Cut: Burning Forests for Energy Doesn’t Stack Up	Robert Musil	Weston Roundtable	Land cover and forests,Energy,Climate change
2022	September 29, 2022	Ecosystems as Models for Restoring our Economies (to a Sustainable State)	John Giordanengo	Weston Roundtable	Ecology,Energy,Economics and political economy
2022	September 27, 2022	Fostering Neurodiversity in Support of Effective STEM Learning	Michael Notaro	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Education
2022	September 22, 2022	Linking Environmental Change to Public Health in Africa – Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice	James Hassell	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Health
2022	September 15, 2022	Energy Security and Strategic Planning: Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	Chad Briggs	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Energy,Public policy
2022	May 5, 2022	Can We Agree on the Truth of Climate, Health, and Elections? The Decline and Rise of Democratic Learning	Archon Fung	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Public policy,Health
2022	May 3, 2022	The Optimal Development of the Pacific-North American Pattern	Stephanie Henderson	Climate, People and the Environment Program
2022	April 28, 2022	Excessive Heat and Human Health: Defining the Problem and Implementing Solutions	Laurence Kalkstein	Weston Roundtable	Climate change
2022	April 26, 2022	A Nonlinear Dynamics Approach to Understanding and Measuring Sustainability	Dylan McNamara	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Sustainability
2022	April 21, 2022	A Half Century of Environmental Cooperation: The U.S.-Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement	Mike Goffin, Mic Isham, Chris Korleski, Lana Pollack, Susan Hedman	Earth Day	Water resources,Public policy
2022	April 21, 2022	Climate Resilience in the Electricity-Water Nexus	Paul Block, Line Roald, Greg Harrington, Yiying Xiong, Kim Hansen	Earth Day	Water resources,Climate change,Energy,Built environment
2022	April 21, 2022	The Colorado River Compact at 100	Anna Andrzejewski, Paul Block, Bradford Barham, Patty Rettig	Earth Day	Water resources,Climate change,Public policy,Environmental culture/history
2022	April 21, 2022	Community Partnerships for the Yahara Watershed	Kyle Minks, Martye Griffin, Coreen Fallat, James Tye, Tricia Groby	Earth Day	Water resources,Public policy,Built environment,Agriculture and food
2022	April 21, 2022	Land-Water Connections and the Ecological Impacts of Water Pollution	Claudio Gratton, Jennifer Tank, Matt Diebel, Mitch Reynolds, James Crall, Alyson Fleming	Earth Day	Water resources,Ecology
2022	April 21, 2022	Mountains and Three or Four Rios (Rivers)	Sarli E. Mercado, Lori DiPrete Brown, Ksenija Bilbija, Jorge Gutierrez Reyna, Kata Beilin, Dr. Eduardo Santana Castellón, León Plascencia Ñol, Santiago Acosta, Claudia Cabrera Espinosa, Marco Antonio Murillo, Carolina Espinosa Cartes	Earth Day	Environmental culture/history,Environmental justice
2022	April 21, 2022	The Okavango Delta: Opportunities for Regional Cooperation	Kitso Mokaila, Michelle Gavin, Nyambe Nyambe	Earth Day	Water resources
2022	April 21, 2022	Tribal_University Partnerships for Wild Rice Revitalization in the Western Great Lakes	Amy Cottrell, Anita Thompson, Jessie Conaway, Andre Virden, Jessica Ryan	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history,Agriculture and food
2022	April 21, 2022	Reimagining Our Relationship with Water	Sandra Postel, Kelsey Leonard	Earth Day	Water resources,Sustainability
2022	April 21, 2022	Water@UW: Addressing Wisconsin's Water Challenges	Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Grace Wilkinson, Hilary Dugan, Christy Remucal	Earth Day	Water resources
2022	April 21, 2022	Water for Food: Too Much or Not Enough?	Chris Kucharik, Mutlu Ozdogan, Zhou Zhang, Carol Barford	Earth Day	Water resources,Agriculture and food
2022	April 21, 2022	Water, Water, Everywhere, in the Air, in the Ice, in the Ground, and in the Sea: A Conversation About the Science of the Changing Global Water Cycle	Daniel Wright, Madeline Magee, Till Wagner, Ankur Desai, Steve Vavrus	Earth Day	Water resources,Climate change
2022	April 21, 2022	Working Together to Improve Wisconsin's Water: How Community-University Partnerships Catalyze Water Quality Projects in Wisconsin	Gavin Luter, Andrea Hicks, Bret Shaw, David Kolodziejski, Ford Freyberg	Earth Day	Water resources
2022	April 12, 2022	Modeling Lake Ecosystem Change in Socio-environmental Systems to Improve Water Resources Management	Nicole Ward	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources,Ecology
2022	April 5, 2022	Change is Rough: the Impacts of Changing Sea Ice on Arctic Winds	Alice DuVivier	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2022	March 31, 2022	Climate Stabilization Through a Global Green New Deal	Robert Pollin	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Public policy
2022	March 24, 2022	Tackling Environmental Challenges (Including Plastic Pollution) Globally and Locally: A Conversation with the UN Environment Programme, North America	Barbara Hendrie	Weston Roundtable	Public policy,Water resources
2022	March 22, 2022	Under-Ice Physical and Biological Responses to a Multi-Year Snow Removal	Hilary Dugan, Ellie Socha	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2022	March 9, 2022	Back to the Earth: Why Green Burials Matter	Shedd Farley, Tajai Turner, Sheamus Cavanaugh	CHE Environmental Colloquium	Environmental culture/history
2022	March 3, 2022	Global Forest Watch: Lessons from Providing Real-Time Forest Monitoring Data	Mikaela Weisse	Weston Roundtable	Land cover and forests
2022	February 8, 2022	Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Economics	Bill Kleindl	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Ecology
2022	February 1, 2022	What Do Weak Temperature Gradients and Moisture Modes Teach Us About Tropical Weather and Climate?	Angel Adames	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change
2021	December 9, 2021	Making Decentralized Climate Action Work"	Morgan Edwards	Weston Roundtable	Public policy,Climate change
2021	December 2, 2021	Nitrogen, Groundwater Quality, and a Changing Climate: Intersecting Challenges for Wisconsin Agriculture	Christopher Kucharik	Weston Roundtable	Agriculture and food,Climate change,Water resources
2021	December 1, 2021	Navigating the Landscape: Bird Collisions & Solutions	Chris Sheppard, Anne Lewis, Crystal Sutheimer, Susan Frikken, Matt Reetz		Wildlife,Ecology,Public policy
2021	November 18, 2021	Geologic Carbon Storage as a Technology for Reaching Climate Targets	Christopher Zahasky	Weston Roundtable	Climate change
2021	November 16, 2021	2020/2021: A Time for Data Synthesis by Dr. Michael F. Meyer	Michael F. Meyer	Climate, People and the Environment Program
2021	November 9, 2021	Beyond Greenness: Quantifying Climate-Vegetation Interactions from Leaf to Globe	Mallory Barnes	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change
2021	November 21, 2021	An Independent Risk Analysis: Policy, Risks and Science of the Straits of Mackinac	Guy Meadows	Weston Roundtable	Water resources
2021	November 4, 2021	Mobility Analytics Allows the Understanding of Recovery of Cities After Disasters	Satish Ukkusuri	Weston Roundtable	Built environment
2021	November 2, 2021	Climate Resilience in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study from Norton Sound, Alaska	Jason Miszaniec	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Water resources,Climate change,Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history
2021	October 26, 2021	Arctic Amplification and Sea Ice Loss	Till Wagner	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Water resources,Climate change
2021	October 28, 2021	Sources of Inequity in Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution	Chris Tessum	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Air quality
2021	October 21, 2021	The Value of Global Indigenous Knowledge in Planetary Health	Nicole Redvers	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history,Indigenous and Native communities
2021	October 19, 2021	Arctic Ocean Freshwater in CMIP6 Ensembles: Declining Sea Ice, Increasing Ocean Storage and Export	Hannah Zanowski	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Water resources,Climate change
2021	October 14, 2021	Rebuilding Yesterday: The Power of Untold Stories, a Conversation with Shelton Johnson	Shelton Johnson, James Edward Mills	Jordahl Public Lands Lecture	Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history
2021	October 14, 2021	Optimization in Energy and Environmental Systems	Michael Ferris	Weston Roundtable	Energy
2021	October 12, 2021	Coupled Arctic Numerical Weather Prediction	Erin Thomas	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2021	October 7, 2021	The Future of Urban Infrastructure: Water, Wastewater, Transport, Electricity, Gas, Solid Waste, and Telecommunications	Sybil Derrible	Weston Roundtable	Built environment
2021	September 30, 2021	Voices of National Leadership in Anti-Racism in the Outdoors	James Edward Mills, Christopher Kilgour, Claudia Pineda Tibbs, Corina Newsome	Everyone’s Earth: Conversations on Race and Environment	Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history
2021	September 30, 2021	Research into Solar Geoengineering Approaches to Cool Earth: A Dangerous Distraction or an Idea Whose Time Has Come?	Peter Frumhoff	Weston Roundtable	Energy
2021	September 23, 2021	The Science of Our Changing Climate: Getting onto the Pathway to Sustainability	Donald Wuebbles	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Sustainability
2021	April 29, 2021	Can We Have Agroecology Without Food Justice and Food Sovereignty? The Answer is: No.	Jahi Chappell	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Agriculture and food
2021	April 22, 2021	Equitable Access to the Outdoors	Angelou Ezeilo, José González, Mandela Barnes, James Mills	Earth Day	Environmental justice
2021	April 22, 2021	Parallels Between the Pandemic and Climate Change	Dylan Jennings, Jonathan Patz, Beth Churchill, Kristofer Canto, Steve Vavrus	Earth Day	Climate change,Health
2021	April 22, 2021	Justice in the FEW Nexus	Grace Bulltail, Adena Rissman, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Carol Barford	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Agriculture and food,Energy,Water resources
2021	April 22, 2021	Resilience in the Great Lakes Region	Elena Irwin, Adam Bechle, Anita Thompson	Earth Day	Climate change,Water resources
2021	April 22, 2021	The Future of Work: How to Create a Just and Sustainable Workplace Culture	Patrick Hillberg, Kenya Jacobs, Laurie Klomstad, Lisa Geason-Bauer, Jessy Servi Ortiz	Earth Day	Sustainability
2021	April 22, 2021	Inspired By Nature: How Nature-Based Solutions Promote Resiliency	Nathan Henry, Karen Sands, Nathan Schulfer	Earth Day	Climate change,Sustainability,Ecology
2021	April 22, 2021	Indigenous Knowledge, ‘Hope,’ and Climate Change	Jen Rose Smith, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Hiʻilei Hobart, Elizabeth Hennessy	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Indigenous and Native communities
2021	April 22, 2021	Just Responses	Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Kyle Whyte	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Climate change
2021	April 15, 2021	The Regulation of Treaty Harvested Foods as an Exercise of Tribal Food Sovereignty	Philomena Kebec	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Indigenous and Native communities
2021	April 12, 2021	Understanding Sun-Sensor Geometry Effects in Solar Induced Fluorescence Observations for Better Remote Sensing of Photosynthetic Carbon Uptake	Min Chen	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Land cover and forests
2021	April 8, 2021	Land Use, Land Tenure, and Resource Management on Tribal Lands	Grace Bulltail	Weston Roundtable	Environmental justice,Indigenous and Native communities,Land use
2021	March 25, 2021	Wolf Policy and Its Effects on Illegal Killing, Human Tolerance, and Recovery	Adrian Treves	Weston Roundtable	Wildlife,Ecology,Public policy
2021	March 18, 2021	A Theory of Cooperation: John Nash Versus Immanuel Kant	John Roemer	Weston Roundtable
2021	March 11, 2021	The Future of Plastic	Shawn Welch, Carolyn Woznicki, George Huber, Steve Alexander	Sustainable Success	Sustainability
2021	March 4, 2021	The Conflict Between "Feel Good Facts" and the Scientific and Social Limitations of Sustainable Energy	Donald Siegel	Weston Roundtable	Sustainability,Energy,Public policy
2021	February 25, 2021	Alfalfa Yield Prediction Using UAV-Based Hyperspectral Imagery and Ensemble Learning	Zhou Zhang	Weston Roundtable	Agriculture and food
2021	February 22, 2021	Towards Understanding the New Arctic: Late-Season Organic Matter Distributions in an Ice-Free Arctic Ocean	Miguel Goni	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2021	February 18, 2021	Three Decades of Land Use Transformation in Brazil and the Amazon	Tasso Azevedo	Weston Roundtable	Land use,Biodiversity
2021	February 16, 2021	What Earth's Past Can Tell Us About Our Watery Future	Andrea Dutton	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2021	February 11, 2021	Adapting to a Changing Great Lakes Coast	Adam Bechle	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Water resources
2021	February 4, 2021	Unlocking Energy Efficiency's Potential for Climate Change Mitigation - International Best Practices and Experiences	Ashok Sarkar	Weston Roundtable	Climate change,Energy,Public policy
2020	December 9, 2020	Wrenched from the Land: Perspectives from the Front Lines of Environmental Activism	Terry Tempest Williams, Doug Peacock, Jack Loeffler		Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history
2020	November 23, 2020	Evolutionary Genomic Mechanisms of Adaptation to Novel and Changing Salinity	David Stern	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Water resources
2020	October 12, 2020	In Situ Observations of Clouds and Snow in Lake-Effect Snow Storms	David Kristovich	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change
2020	October 8, 2020	The Return to Belonging and Reclaimed Narratives About These Lands	Midy Aponte	Jordahl Public Lands Lecture	Environmental justice
2020	September 21, 2020	Incorporating New Knowledge of Plant Water Use Strategies Into Land-Atmosphere Models: Novel Challenges and Approaches from Plant to Regional Scales	Ashley Matheny	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Land cover and forests,Water resources
2020	September 11, 2020	On the Horizon: Climate Change and Clean Air	Tracey Holloway		Climate change,Air quality,Health
2020	August 25, 2020	Anti-Racism in Our National Parks	Carolyn Dinney, Nina Roberts, Shelton Johnson, Robert Stanton, Angelou Ezeilo		Environmental justice
2020	April 20, 2020	Preventing the Next Pandemic: Urgency for Planetary Health Approach	Jonathan Patz	Earth Day	Health,Climate change,Wildlife
2020	April 20, 2020	Carbon Reduction Management and Tools	Kathy Kuntz, Lisa Geason-Bauer, Jessi Servi-Ortiz	Earth Day	Sustainability
2020	April 20, 2020	Cutting-Edge Conservation	Carol Barford, Zuzana Buivalova, Francisco Pelegri, Zhou Zhang	Earth Day	Wildlife,Ecology
2020	April 20, 2020	Defining Carbon Jargon	Oconomowoc High School global sustainability class	Earth Day	Sustainability
2020	April 20, 2020	Earth Day@50: An Enduring Vision that Connects Wisconsin to the World	Mandela Barnes, Tia Nelson, Adam Rome	Earth Day	Climate change,Environmental justice,Environmental culture/history
2020	April 20, 2020	Food and Justice for All: The Environmental and Societal Challenges of Food Justice	Monica White, Jennifer Gaddis, Mariaelena Huambachano, Sarah Rios	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Agriculture and food
2020	April 20, 2020	Imagining Our Collective Future: What Kind of World Do We Want to Craft?	Eduardo Brondizio, Lucas Joppa, Mariama White-Hammond	Earth Day	Environmental justice
2020	April 20, 2020	Power to the People: Exploring the Importance of Energy Justice	Mary Blanchard, Heather Allen, Antonio Butts, Huda Alkaff	Earth Day	Environmental justice,Sustainability,Energy
2020	April 20, 2020	Sustainable Wildlife Management	Tim Van Deelen, Emily Iehl, Anne Lacy, Michael Waasegiizhig Price	Earth Day	Wildlife,Ecology,Sustainability
2020	April 20, 2020	WI Ideas: A Creative Look at Graduate Research in the Nelson Institute	Colleen Henegan, Hugh Roland, 2020 Water Resources Management Cohort	Earth Day	Sustainability,Water resources,Agriculture and food
2020	March 31, 2020	Gas Exchange in Wisconsin Wetlands and Public Perceptions Through Time	Jessica Turner	Climate, People and the Environment Program	Climate change,Land cover and forests,Water resources
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