Category: Changing Climate
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Posted on September 4, 2023
Wisconet provides up-to-date weather information to support Wisconsin farmers, researchers and residents
Wisconsin’s wild weather has been on full display in 2023 with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, wildfire smoke, heavy precipitation and extreme drought. Weather can have […]
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Pollutants are important to biodiversity’s role in spread of wildlife diseases
Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat […]
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Posted on August 21, 2023
Picturing the places wildlands and people meet at a global scale
Researchers led by a team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created the first tool to map and visualize the areas where human settlements and […]
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Posted on July 24, 2023
Can farms pull enough carbon from sky to soil?
A CALS agronomy group is partnering with farmers on a 10-year study to find out if improved agricultural practices can really sequester carbon and help […]
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Posted on July 17, 2023
Study by LSC’s Nan Li shows integrating art with data visualizations can help bridge the US political divide over climate change
Communicating science to a general audience can be challenging. Successfully conveying research on polarizing topics such as climate change can be even more difficult. But […]
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Posted on June 12, 2023
Climate-stressed trees get a boost from new microbial partnerships
Climate change is subjecting plants to rapid shifts in temperature and precipitation, pushing them into new ranges and stressing them in old ones. Trees may […]
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Posted on June 7, 2023
Grant awarded: Scott Brainard receives USDA-NIFA funding for breeding higher yielding chestnut varieties
Scott Brainard, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Horticulture, received $225,000 for his project “Leveraging seedling chestnut orchards to rapidly breed higher yielding varieties using […]
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Grant awarded: Julie Dawson receives USDA-NIFA funding for improving kernel quality characteristics in American hazelnut
Julie Dawson, associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, received $649,604 for her project “Breeding for improved kernel quality characteristics in American hazelnut” through NIFA’s […]