A study from a UW-Madison researcher published Monday in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters contends that walleye, one of Wisconsin’s most sought-after fish and one of its tastiest, are not only struggling to survive in warming waters; their reproduction is also being interfered with and has been “unable to keep up with increasingly early and more variable ice-off dates.”
Speakers, panelists encourage student global engagement.
In her 2½-minute video “Amulet,” award-winning artist Helen Lee shows her own image morphing into that of her young daughter Cicada. Both are dressed in black and framed by a black background, reciting Zhuyin Fuhao, a Chinese phonetic alphabet used today, Lee says, only in Taiwan and by the Chinese diaspora.
Lee, an associate professor of art and head of the Glass Lab at UW-Madison, wears a delicate necklace in the video with a small charm made from jade. It’s from her grandmother, and something she wears every day.
For about a decade, Jonathan Martin, a professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, has analyzed the size of the cold pool at this level — or the area of the hemisphere covered by temperatures at or below 23 degrees (minus-5 Celsius). This winter’s cold pool will finish the winter as the second-smallest on record, Martin said.
In Madison, Wisconsin’s capital in the southern part of the state, temperatures rise into the triple digits in the summer but have never hit 60 degrees in January, said Steve Vavrus, Wisconsin’s state climatologist.
Daniel Vimont, a UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic science, has seen a trend in Wisconsin’s climate: it’s getting warmer. Stanley Temple, a UW-Madison professor emeritus of forest and wildlife ecology, sees concerning changes in bird migration patterns.
University of Wisconsin- Madison professor and Consumer Science department chair, Cliff Robb tells News 3 Now the shift indicates the company is facing a labor market shortage.
In her latest book, UW-Madison grad Anna Zeide explores what foods like Jell-O, corn, Big Macs and chicken nuggets mean to people in the U.S.
“Maple sap just does not flow in January in northern Wisconsin, but this year it did,” said Karl Martin, co-owner of Martin and Sons Maple Syrup and dean of extension for the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
