Climate, People and the Environment Program Seminar: A Paleoclimate Perspective on Large-scale Climate Dynamics

811 Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences Building 1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI, United States

Speaker: Valerie Trouet, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona Abstract: I will present two studies in which we used tree-ring data to reconstruct long-term variability in (1) jet stream position and (2) …

Weston Roundtable Series: Ethics and the Social Cost of Carbon

1153 Mechanical Engineering 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

Speaker: Paul Kelleher, Associate Professor, Departments of Philosophy & Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Nobel Prize-winning economist William Nordhaus has called the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) "the most important single concept in the economics …

Sustainable Energy Seminar Series: Bacterial Genetics and Biofuel Production

1115 Wisconsin Energy Institute 1552 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

In this Sustainable Energy Seminar, Jason Peters, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, will discuss the use of novel techniques to generate bacteria optimized for biofuel production. Abstract Bacterial genes encode proteins that enable cells to produce …

Parking Lots and Sidewalks Salt Certification Class

1610 Moorland Road 1610 Moorland Road, Madison, WI, United States

Registration Details: The Madison Salt Certification Program was developed in 2017. More than 300 certified applicators have been trained in Dane County since the voluntary program was started. The program is housed in City of …

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