During that ancient time, known as the mid-Pliocene epoch, temperatures were higher by about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels were higher by roughly 20 meters (almost 66 feet) than today, explained Kevin D. Burke, lead author of the study and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We are living through, and causing, a geological-scale episode of global change, and are climatically rewinding the clock by millions of years,” John “Jack” Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Newsweek.
‘We can use the past as a yardstick to understand the future, which is so different from anything we have experienced in our lifetimes,’ says paleoecologist John “Jack” Williams, professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“If we think about the future in terms of the past, where we are going is uncharted territory for human society. We are moving towards very dramatic changes over an extremely rapid time frame, reversing a planetary cooling trend in a matter of centuries,” says the study’s lead author, Kevin Burke, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison).
John Williams, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that in 25 years society had gone from expecting climate change to seeing its harmful effects.
The last, sustained ruffed grouse research in Wisconsin was conducted through the late 1980s by University of Wisconsin researchers Donald Rusch, James Holzwart and Robert Small. Their work was published in 1991 in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
In July 1958, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison named Arthur “Art” Code received a telegram from the fledgling Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences. The agency wanted to know what he and his colleagues would do if given the opportunity to launch into Earth’s orbit an instrument weighing up to 100 pounds. Code, newly-minted director of the University’s Washburn Observatory, had something in mind. Fifty years ago, on December 7, 1968, that idea culminated in NASA’s launch of the first successful space-based observatory: the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, or OAO-2.
With UW Colleges, Extension going through transitional period, funding for student services has become concerning.
The University of Wisconsin system’s governing board has denied a performance raise to its longest-serving chancellor, Joe Gow, who leads the La Crosse campus, following a controversy over Gow’s decision to host a porn star’s speech on the campus, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
Though he won’t be competing directly against star performers, Jim Leary, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of folklore and Scandinavian Studies, was nominated for his second Grammy, this time for writing the album notes for “Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924,” an album of folk tunes recorded by a Wisconsin label.
From crime to politics and everything in between, there has never been a dull moment of reporting this semester.
The Trump administration in September launched a comprehensive review of all research involving human fetal tissue, which has helped researchers make headway in studies of macular degeneration and infectious diseases like HIV and the Zika virus.
Maintaining state infrastructure deemed crucial to Wisconsin, Mississippi Export Railroads.
Quoted: Dennis Dresang, professor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the moves defy his state’s long history of deferring to incoming officials — even those in the opposite party — after elections.
Quoted: UW-Madison Political Science Professor, David Canon said depending if Walker vetoes, signs the bills, or makes changes, it will set the tone at the statehouse for the next four years.
Quoted: “Even though technically a naked-eye comet doesn’t have to be very bright, they’re still relatively unusual,” said Jim Lattis, director of University of Wisconsin Space Place, UW-Madison’s astronomy outreach center.
In 1970, she became a laboratory technician at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. For over 20 years she was involved in cancer research.
UW–Madison alumna Velvalea “Vel” Phillips was the first woman judge in Milwaukee County and the first African American elected to the Milwaukee Common Council and to statewide office in Wisconsin.
