Category: Healthy Ecosystems
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Posted on March 2, 2021
Conservation takes a village
Teri Allendorf applied for the Peace Corps in the early 1990s with an eye toward East Africa, where she was hoping to use her knowledge of […]
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Posted on February 15, 2021
Entomology students work to understand the best habitat for monarchs to keep them from becoming insects of the past
It’s a sweltering August day in 2019. The sun gilds the flowering prairies of southern Wisconsin. Entomology graduate student Skye Harnsberger and her research team park their pickup truck […]
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Posted on January 29, 2021
Data is helping scientists predict how climate extremes affect plants and animals – and where to target conservation
When El Niño approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we’ve come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in the southern United States and drought in the […]
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Posted on January 13, 2021
Research projects advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin
Three UW–Madison graduate students are getting a unique opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary, hands-on research that will advance sustainable agriculture and food in Wisconsin and […]
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Posted on January 8, 2021
Subscriptions to satellite alerts linked to decreased deforestation in Africa
Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to detect […]
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Posted on December 16, 2020
Of mutant wranglers and slime whisperers: the quest to understand how certain plants form a fertilization partnership with bacteria
In 1909, the German chemist Fritz Haber sparked an agricultural revolution. Using enormous pressures and high temperatures, he had learned how to efficiently transform nitrogen, so abundant in […]
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Posted on December 2, 2020
Wisconsin Agribusiness Classic goes virtual, welcomes out-of-state attendees to Jan. 11-13 online conference and tradeshow
Wisconsin’s premier agribusiness industry event, the Wisconsin Agribusiness Classic, will be held virtually in 2021—opening it up to interested individuals across the region and the […]
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Posted on November 25, 2020
Dairy Innovation Hub holds first Dairy Summit
The Dairy Innovation Hub, which launched in 2019, harnesses research and development at UW–Madison, UW–Platteville and UW–River Falls campuses to keep Wisconsin’s dairy community at the global forefront in producing […]
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Posted on November 18, 2020
UW launches new global health major
2020 has been a time of expanded visibility of—and appreciation for—global public health efforts, a year when people have been paying attention to the complex […]
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Posted on November 16, 2020
Organic grain winter programming announced
UW–Madison’s Organic Grain Resource and Information Network (OGRAIN) has announced multiple virtual winter programs starting this month and continuing through March. Open to all farmers […]