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Managing Water Resources in Chile’s Semi-Arid Elqui Valley

Paul Block, UW professor and member of the GHI Advisory committee, works at the intersection of engineering and socio-economics to enhance management, adaptation, and sustainability of water resources by leveraging across the sciences.  His research themes are centered on a systems-based approach, bridging models and methods across climate science, hydrology, management, the environment, economics, and …

Bob Lindmeier: Discussing Weather And Climate Change

Join Bob Lindmeier, Chief Meteorologist at WKOW-TV, to learn about the critical distinctions between weather and the effect of climate change on weather trends and patterns in south central Wisconsin. Lindmeier will also assess why combating climate change is important to health and healthcare. If you’d like to learn more about Sustainability at UW Health, …

Fall Research Day

This year, we will feature a presentation by Tom Cherpes of the Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University. Cherpes received his DVM from the University of Wisconsin in 1989. After give years in practice, he enrolled in the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and received his MD in 1998. He completed clinical and research …

Wisconsin Ecology 23rd Annual Fall Symposium

      We are pleased to host Dr. Julian Olden, a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, as keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Ecology Fall Symposium on October 11 & 12, 2017. Dr. Olden’s research program spans multiple levels of biological organization and modes of inquiry to advance …

Building Green Infrastructure in the U.S.: A Framework for Sustainable Growth

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture would like to invite you to a special guest lecture, “Building green infrastructure in the US: a framework for sustainable growth,” by Hugh Keegan. Hugh is currently the manager of ESRI’s applications prototype lab, a group working at ESRI’s headquarters in Redlands, California. The group …

Weston Roundtable: Sustainability and Science in the Anthropocene

Exponential changes of the human-dominated age bring great challenges for the contribution of science to society. Successful transition to any form of sustainability in climate, food, water, energy, finance, and health, if done at scale, will require rapid increases in integrated science; timely, co-designed knowledge, and focused innovation. Current structures are not well equipped to …