Congratulations to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, the Ned P. Smith Distinguished Chair of Climatology in @uwmad-aos.bsky.social for being awarded a 2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship--also known as "Genius Grants."
Fellows receive an $800,000 stipend with no conditions.
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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

Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Carolyn Bean, AOS graduate student, will defend her MS thesis and discuss "A Qualitative Far-Infrared Characterization of Convective Cloud-Tops."

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZPP...

We’re going live today! ⏰

Join #ScienceOnThe7th with Tracey Holloway (@uwmad-aos.bsky.social) to learn how satellite remote sensing is helping us better understand and address air quality.

📅 Today, Oct 7 | 🕘 9 AM EDT / 1 PM GMT
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Happening tomorrow! Join UW–Madison's 2025 Climate Change Symposium as we explore climate solutions for building resilient communities with a keynote talk, panel discussion, and audience Q & A.

Free, open to the public, and registration appreciated: ccr.nelson.wisc.edu/climate-chan...

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....

Please join us for Weather Watch at 12:15 PM CDT (1715 UTC) today, October 3, 2025, streaming online at go.wisc.edu/uwaos-wxwatch

Remember that we are starting at 12:15 PM this semester because there is a class in the room right before Weather Watch.

Hope to see you there!

We're delighted to share that AOS and Nelson Institute prof. Tracey Holloway has been elected as an AGU Fellow! This distinguished honor is fitting for someone who has worked for over 20 yrs to advance air quality research and policy. Congratulations, Tracey!

www.aos.wisc.edu/news/tracey-...

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...

Please join us for Weather Watch at 12:15 PM CDT (1715 UTC) today, September 26, 2025, streaming online at go.wisc.edu/uwaos-wxwatch

Remember that we are starting at 12:15 PM this semester because there is a class in the room right before Weather Watch.

Hope to see you there!

Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Cara Scalpone, AOS graduate student, will defend her MS thesis and discuss "Impacts of Temperature-Dependent Heating Demand on Wintertime Emissions"

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5M...

#HispanicHeritageMonth Spotlight: Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social is a professor at @uwmad-aos.bsky.social.

She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.

Please join us for Weather Watch at 12:15 PM CDT (1715 UTC) today, September 19, 2025, streaming online at go.wisc.edu/uwaos-wxwatch

Remember that we are starting at 12:15 PM this semester because there is a class in the room right before Weather Watch.

Hope to see you there!

Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Jack Zweifel, AOS graduate student, will defend his MS thesis and discuss "Investigating the Seasonality and Radiative Forcing of Anthropogenic Sulfate Aerosols Over the North Pacific Ocean."

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMhM...

Please join us for Weather Watch at 12:15 PM CDT (1715 UTC) today, September 12, 2025, streaming online at go.wisc.edu/uwaos-wxwatch

Remember that we are starting at 12:15 PM this semester because there is a class in the room right before Weather Watch.

Hope to see you there!

AOS professor Till Wagner is part of a team of UW–Madison researchers aiming to deepen our understanding of how ocean waves wear away massive ice sheets—and how that activity can influence climate around the world.

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Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Sofia Avila Nevarez, AOS graduate student, will defend her MS thesis and discuss "Moist Thermodynamic Processes Leading to the Onset of Moist Tropical Heat Waves."

Livestream: go.wisc.edu/uwaos-youtube

The Wisconet manager was able to get a photo with @uwmad-aos.bsky.social alumni Mike Nelson and Dr. Louis Uccellini at the 50th Annual Meeting of @nwas.org

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Join us today for our first colloquium of the semester with AOS professor Michael Morgan! After a few years away, Michael will (re)introduce himself to the AOS community and describe his career path, classes taught, research foci, and service activities.

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Br...

Please join us for the first Weather Watch of the semester at 12:15 PM CDT (1715 UTC) today streaming online at go.wisc.edu/uwaos-wxwatch - note that we are starting at 12:15 PM this semester because there is a class in the room right before Weather Watch.

Hope to see you there!

We’re thrilled to welcome Bee Leung to our faculty! A cloud physicist and mesoscale meteorologist by training, her research looks at the physical processes driving land-aerosol-cloud interactions. Learn more about Bee in our Q&A: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q-a_wel...

Learn more about ICECHIP:

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Photo: Rachel Cohen/KUNC

Anthony Bernal Ayala, PhD ’25, is part of NSF’s ICECHIP field campaign. Their work will produce the most extensive database of hailstones to date, linking the small-scale details contained within them to large-scale field observations, giving researchers new insights into the hailstone lifecycle.

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 @uwmad-aos.bsky.social Wisconsin State Climatology Office outreach specialist Amanda Schwabe considers how people experience the variability of daily and seasonal weather as climate change shifts broader patterns over time.