News
Professional degree a new tool for conservation leaders
June 11, 2013
In the face of unprecedented environmental challenges that demand novel solutions, UW-Madison will soon begin accepting applications for a model graduate degree program to train tomorrow's …More »
Award celebrates partnership with International Crane FoundationJune 13, 2013
A conservation collaboration between the International Crane Foundation and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies was recognized June 12 at the UW-Madison Community-University Partnership …More »
Jack Williams helps solve mystery of last mammoths' disappearanceJune 10, 2013
Jack Williams, director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, is part of a team of researchers studying the survival and ultimate demise of wooly mammoths on St. Paul Island, …More »
Video: Investigating the ecology of a deadly virusJune 6, 2013
Micah Hahn, a graduate of the Nelson Institute Environment and Resources program (Ph.D. ’13), discusses her research on the ecological factors impacting Nipah virus transmission in …More »
Summer gas prices: UW experts weigh inJune 4, 2013
$3.93 per gallon. 16-gallon tank. $62.88 to fill up. This is all-too-familiar math for drivers who are grudgingly footing their gas bills. Many will direct their frustration at station owners, oil …More »
Rob Nixon: Defining the environmental humanitiesMay 30, 2013
This week, University of Wisconsin-Madison English professor Rob Nixon receives the 2013 biennial award for best book in environmental literary studies from the American Society for Literature and …More »
Notes
Kontgis awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
May 30, 2013
Caitlin Kontgis, a doctoral student in the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), has been awarded a prestigious Earth and Space …More »
A global history of land use
May 15, 2013
Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist in the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, has coauthored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggesting that humans have …More »
Nelson Institute student captures second place in legendary Birkebeiner ski race
February 25, 2013
University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Claire Luby, who is pursuing the Nelson Institute Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment, placed second in the women's division of the …More »
Nelson Institute affiliates receive faculty awards
February 21, 2013
Nelson Institute faculty affiliates James Jay Schauer and M. Jake Vander Zanden were among 16 outstanding faculty members recently recognized at the University of …More »
Holloway named deputy leader of NASA Air Quality Applied Science Team
January 11, 2013
Tracey Holloway, UW-Madison associate professor of environmental studies, has been named deputy leader of the NASA Air Quality Applied Science Team …More »
In the Media
Putting global food on the map
June 14, 2013
Researchers hailing from Mongolia, India, Turkey, western Europe, New Hampshire, Maryland and Northern Arizona University have just started mapping the world's crops in the finest detail ever. …More »
Touring UW-Madison's Lakeshore Nature Preserve and Class of 1918 Marsh
June 14, 2013
Not far from the University of Wisconsin Hospital, tucked behind the Goodman Diamond softball complex, a sea of green cattails shuffles in the breeze and a red-winged blackbird peevishly chases a …More »
Our weird weather may be linked to rapid melting of Arctic sea ice
May 28, 2013
It's more than 3,600 miles from Tucson to the Arctic Circle, but researchers are starting to link some of Tucson's and the country's extreme cold and warm spells over the past few winters to the loss …More »
What Do Wisconsinites Think of a Second Wolf Hunt?
May 28, 2013
After the wolf's federal endangered status was lifted in January 2012, Wisconsin quickly drafted a wolf hunt law. In what critics complained was the blink of an eye, Wisconsin carried out its first …More »
There's Something About the Dalai Lama
May 23, 2013
His Holiness made a swing through town this week to headline the “Change Your Mind Change The World” conference hosted by his old friend Richie Davidson of the UW’s Center for Investigating …More »
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