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Flyer for AOS Leonard Robock Lecture with Dr. Clara Deser

Join us on Tues, March 24, for our 15th annual Leonard Robock Lecture!

Dr. Clara Deser, senior scientist at NCAR, will discuss "A Range of Outcomes: The Combined Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Local Climate.”

Register today: go.wisc.edu/pc3ui6

2026 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced Thirteen UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

AOS professor Jon Martin was one of thirteen faculty members selected to receive a Distinguished Teaching Award. The award—the university’s highest honor for teaching—will be presented on April 15. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone more deserving—congratulations, Jon!

UWM Research Examines Climate Change and Asthma Risk Among Milwaukee Children Wisconsin researchers are exploring how climate change may be affecting asthma risk among children in Milwaukee Public Schools.

AOS prof Tracey Holloway and UW–Milwaukee environmental health sciences prof Amy Kalkbrenner are exploring the link between air pollution and asthma-related visits to school nurses in Milwaukee Public Schools:

AOS professor Fraser King

We're thrilled to welcome Fraser King to our faculty as an assistant professor. Learn more in a brief Q&A with Fraser about his background, research, and what excites him about UW–Madison and AOS: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q&a_fra...

14 Solar is Cool with Mary, Ankur, and Peter Summer internships can make or break someone’s pursuit of a career field, college, or major. High school student Mary shares the main lessons learned from her experience studying the thermal impact of...

Solar is cool, so is mentoring teens. Learn more meetthefluxers.github.io/EP14/

Trump’s closure of national weather center may imperil UW-Madison research The planned closure of the National Center for Atmospheric Research would endanger decades of research at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, scientists say.

NCAR has been the magic sauce that has made weather/climate studies and advances in US and the world over great. madison.com/news/local/e... www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

Save NCAR from being dismantled today! The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

The Trump admin is closing a critical climate research center. Officials believe it’s really trying to punish a governor | CNN The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an organization responsible for improved weather models to tools that aid hurricane safety. ...

The Trump administration announced plans to close NCAR, citing its role in climate change research. But three officials told CNN they believe this is really part of the White House's plan to punish CO governor and free Tina Peters.

WH did not deny the connection.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...

man holding sign "Closing NCAR will harm the American public" outside the AGU 2025 annual meeting in New Orleans (contains QR code)

Seen at #AGU2025 in New Orleans

🧪 SCIENCESKY! Check out the awards that Meet the Fluxers won from Spotify Wrapped this year, like being an "instant hit" 😲 Our debut season was more popular than 86% of other new shows. The amount of shares was incredible - more than 96% of other shows. Thanks for listening to our science podcast! 🎶

Exploring a Frozen Frontier’s Chemistry: The CHACHA Project The Arctic, one of the coldest regions on Earth, is warming nearly three times faster than the global average. As temperatures rise, the once-thick sea ice is thinning, and cracks in the ice…

Here are news about environmental changes in the Arctic headlines.ametsoc.org/2025/12/01/e... @ametsoc.org @andrewpault.bsky.social @agucryo.bsky.social @eliebz.bsky.social

Ecometeorology at AGU 2025 — Ecometeorology Lab List of Fall 2025 AGU talks

Here is Ecometeorology and colleague AGU 25 line up - lots of good stuff here: flux.aos.wisc.edu/projects/202...

Twenty‐Five Years of Shifting Ground: Reflections on Publishing and Editing in the Earth Sciences I describe the dramatic changes that occurred in scholarly publishing during my career I highlight some lessons learned and provide advice

"Twenty-Five Years of Shifting Ground: Reflections on Publishing and Editing in the Earth Sciences" by my editorial colleague Maggie Xenopoulos agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Many dossier allow the candidate to select 3 or so papers that best reflect progress and those are usually included as PDFs to letter writers. Even if not, I'll see what you mention in statement and go read those, even if new to me.

If there are issues that would worry me about granint a long term indefinite appt, I'd provide concrete recommendations. I have an anonymized version of an example letter I wrote and I shared with our AOS junior faculty during one of our monthly meetups - email me and I'll try to dig it up.

Love if I can write about specific paper(s) that influenced my own thinking or that of my lab (even if I'm just learning about it then). Tend to focus on outcomes led by you or students, and what you lean into in your dossier statements. My default is to assume solid case, or I wouldn't be asked.

Have you delivered on the promise of your hire with respect to your department's standards and do you have a clear future plan for your scholarship? How have your papers, student mentoring/theses, outreach influenced the field?

Yes, tried to search for it now in possible places I shared. I'll chime in on Christi's thread.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

If climate news gets you down in the dump, go attend a local youth climate summit. The kids are alright and making real differences in their communities. #2025WisconsinYouthClimateConference

YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison UW-AOS Ph.D. Defense - November 20, 2025 - Nikaan Koupaei Abyazani

PhD defense seminar from Nikaan Koupaei-Abyazani from Ecometeorology lab @uwmad-aos.bsky.social today at 1 pm CST - watch online: Title: A Different Peat Perspective: Quantifying Tropical Peatland Ecosystem Variables from the Ground and from Space www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnY3...

PeatDepth-ML: A Global Map of Peat Depth Predicted using Machine Learning Abstract. Peatlands are major carbon stores that are sensitive to climate change and increasingly affected by human activity. Accurate assessment of carbon stocks and modelling of peatland responses t...

PeatDepth-ML: A Global Map of Peat Depth Predicted using Machine Learning egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

AMS and AGU are no fun without students. These dollars are one of our primary ways to get them there!

Two UW–Madison professors named MacArthur Fellows Atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza and nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, have been awarded 2025 MacArthur Fellowships.

WOO HOO!! Proud to share that TWO @uwmadison.bsky.social faculty were just announced as 2025 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipients. HUGE congrats to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza & Sébastien Phillipe, doing amazing work on tropical storms & nuclear security, respectively.👏

So thrilling to see our very own genius, Ángel Adames Corraliza, receive this fitting recognition!!!

Fill the Hill save-the-date image

The flamingos are coming! 🦩 Will you help us Fill the Hill Oct 9–10? Join in the feathered fun and make a gift starting at 5 pm CDT, Thurs, 10/9: uwflamingos.com/campaign/atm....

Flyer for AOS Department Seminar with Megan Caldwell

Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Megan Caldwell, flood and water analyst, Guy Carpenter, will discuss "Private Sector Meteorology: An Introduction to Reinsurance and Catastrophe Modeling."

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-D...

Very nice essay! @biometlab.bsky.social @paulstoy.bsky.social @profdesai.bsky.social

I found an obituary for Steve

www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...