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Meet the Staff
Director and State Climatologist:
Steve Vavrus is a Senior Scientist (Scientist III) in the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research UW-Madison. He is an expert on Wisconsin climatology, extreme weather, global climate change, and Arctic climate. Most of his research involves computer climate models, which provide both quantitative estimates of changes in Earth’s climate in the past (paleoclimate) and future. Steve serves as Co-Director of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) and is a member of its Climate Working Group. He also serves as Assistant Director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and is the former chair of the American Meteorological Society's Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Committee. Steve earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a B.S. degree from Purdue University.
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Assistant State Climatologist: Ed Hopkins' area of interest is in Wisconsin's climate, climatic change and science education. He has co-authored a book entitled
Wisconsin's Weather and Climate (University of Wisconsin Press) with Prof. Joseph M. Moran of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He has contributed to the operation of the State Climatology Office for more than ten years. In addition, he has at least twenty years of experience teaching the introductory level meteorology courses, both at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Northern Illinois University. Ed has been actively involved with the education activities of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geological Institute and the National Geographic Society. He has prepared a resource listing of meteorological educational materials directed for elementary and secondary school teachers. |
Emeritus Director: John Young is an emeritus professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
He was on the faculty for 42 years, specializing in large-scale atmospheric wind dynamics and turbulence near the earth's surface. These areas are fundamental to understanding the climate system and its variability. He has participated in observational climate programs involving air-sea interaction, monsoons, and the Pacific El Niño. His work in theory and modeling has concentrated on global-scale wind systems and cloud convection affecting the energy budget of the earth's surface. He is now applying this knowledge to the understanding and prediction of climate fluctuations over the Midwestern U.S. In recent years he has given presentations on global and regional climate change,
El Niño to professional public groups and the media in southern Wisconsin. He has also served as the departmental chairman. |
Office Manager and Data Services: Lyle Anderson manages the day-to-day operations during his office hours each weekday afternoon. He has
22 years of experience assisting the public in this role. He answers basic climate data questions for the public, and in some cases provides actual information from climate records. He also consults with Dr. Hopkins in providing these some of these services. |
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In memory of
a true Wisconsin
climatologist
Reid A. Bryson, 1920-2008.
Courtesy, Center for Climatic
Research
Reid was not only interested in Wisconsin's weather and climate, but
he will be remembered as founder of the University of Wisconsin's
Department of Meteorology in 1948, founder of the Center for Climate
Research and its endowed Climate, People, and Environment Program, and
founder of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His fertile
mind gave birth to a wide range of studies and opinions on the earth's
climate and it peoples. His legacy survives in University of
Wisconsin research and teaching activities extending to other
disciplines.
He is survived by his children Ann, Bill, Bob
and Tom.
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