Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI)
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, in collaboration with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and other campus units, launched a cooperative effort with state government officials to focus their collective expertise on determining the potential impacts of climate change, specifically within the state. To date, most predictions of the impacts of climate change have been global in scale, with projections reaching a century or more into the future. As important as these may be, public officials, business and agricultural leaders, and individual citizens in Wisconsin need well-grounded estimates at smaller scales, and in different time frames, to make informed choices about the future.
Outcomes
Knowledge assessed from this combined effort will help inform and guide scientific research at the university. Collaborators will use the latest scientific know-how and tools to address citizen concerns, generate useful information for elected officials and provide the types of predictions that business leaders, resource managers, municipalities and others need for strategic planning and decision making.
Focus Areas
Project Leader
Steve Pomplun
retired
- Department/Unit
- Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
- School or College
- Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies