Recent analysis of historical data, combined with climate model downscaling, suggest that the southern Wisconsin precipitation events of 2008 are part of a trend toward wetter conditions and more intense[…]
Soil is the foundation of Wisconsin’s agriculture. Soil particles eroding from agricultural lands both degrade the soil resource, potentially reducing agricultural productivity, and pollute rivers and streams, which impacts Wisconsin[…]
The WICCI Plants and Natural Communities Working Group’s mission is to focus on plants and their natural communities including ecological function and processes. It addresses the use of natural areas[…]
Climate change is expected to have certain, but unforeseen, consequences on the urban environment. There have been few comprehensive assessments of climate change impacts on metropolitan areas in the US.[…]
Human health could be impacted by climate change in a variety of ways. Warmer temperatures, changes in precipitation, and increases in extreme weather events can combine with other factors to[…]
The Green Bay Working Group is identifying the stressors and vulnerabilities on the Green Bay ecosystem and how climate change may affect those vulnerabilities.
As Wisconsin’s climate undergoes serious change over the next 100 years, the species in its forest will certainly be impacted. To better understand these impacts coordinated research must be conducted[…]
The purpose of the Coldwater Fish & Fisheries Working Group is to identify the potential impacts of climate change on coldwater fish and fisheries in Wisconsin streams and inland lakes[…]
Few local officials and public servants in Great Lakes coastal communities fully appreciate the potential consequences changing lake levels, flood patterns, and storm events that may result from a changing[…]
Wisconsin’s geographical setting gives rise to a rich set of climatic conditions that help shape our state’s environmental, social and economic resources. In the coming decades, we can anticipate that[…]
