Ankur Desai
@profdesai.bsky.social
Professor and Chair@UW_AOS Meteorology, Ecology, Climate Sci (Biosphere-Atmos) Parent to 3 kid chaos. Https://flux.aos.wisc.edu
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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!
2026 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced
Thirteen UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
news.wisc.edu
January 23, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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!
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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:
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.
uwm.edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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:
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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...
January 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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...
Solar is cool, so is mentoring teens. Learn more meetthefluxers.github.io/EP14/
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...
meetthefluxers.github.io
January 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Solar is cool, so is mentoring teens. Learn more meetthefluxers.github.io/EP14/
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...
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.
madison.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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...
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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.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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.
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AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
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.quorum.us
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
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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...
WH did not deny the connection.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
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. ...
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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...
WH did not deny the connection.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/c...
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🧪 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! 🎶
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🧪 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! 🎶
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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
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…
headlines.ametsoc.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
Here is Ecometeorology and colleague AGU 25 line up - lots of good stuff here: flux.aos.wisc.edu/projects/202...
Ecometeorology at AGU 2025 — Ecometeorology Lab
List of Fall 2025 AGU talks
flux.aos.wisc.edu
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Here is Ecometeorology and colleague AGU 25 line up - lots of good stuff here: flux.aos.wisc.edu/projects/202...
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"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/...
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
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"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.
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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?
December 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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.
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Yes, tried to search for it now in possible places I shared. I'll chime in on Christi's thread.
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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.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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
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...
UW-AOS Ph.D. Defense - November 20, 2025 - Nikaan Koupaei Abyazani
YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison
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November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
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PeatDepth-ML: A Global Map of Peat Depth Predicted using Machine Learning egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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...
egusphere.copernicus.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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!
Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences.
Will you join our AOS flock?
Will you join our AOS flock?
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - Fill The Hill
Since 1948, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) has been at the forefront of weather, climate, and ocean science, with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. O...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AMS and AGU are no fun without students. These dollars are one of our primary ways to get them there!
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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.👏
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.
news.wisc.edu
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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!!!
We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Ángel F. Adames Corraliza
Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.
www.macfound.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
So thrilling to see our very own genius, Ángel Adames Corraliza, receive this fitting recognition!!!