Awards

  • February 21, 2007
    Lifetime achievement award from CSG for UW-Madison Emeritus Prof. Brinkmann
    Department Chair Matt Turner has announced that Professor Emeritus Waltraud Brinkmann has been awarded the lifetime achievement award from the AAG Climate Specialty Group. Congratulations to Wally! Very well-deserved! She will be presented the award at the Association of American Geographers meeting in San Francisco in April 2007.

  • May 2007
    Kutzbach inducted into National Academies of Science (NAS)
    Professor Emeritus John E. Kutzbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected to be a member of the National Academies of Science (NAS). Photos. UW Press Release.

  • January 22, 2007
    Kutzbach to receive American Geophysical Union medal
    Professor Emeritus John E. Kutzbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to receive the prestigious Roger Revelle Medal.
    The Revelle medal is awarded for “outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences, atmosphere-ocean coupling, atmosphere-land coupling, biogeochemical cycles, climate, or related aspects of the Earth system”.

    The medal will be presented at the AGU annual meeting in San Francisco in December 2006. AGU is among the largest international scientific societies with 35,000 members, dedicated to advancing the understanding of earth and space for the benefit of humanity.

    Kutzbach is Professor Emeritus in the UW-Madison’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department and the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and was Plaenert-Bascom Professor of Liberal Arts. He was formerly the director of the Center for Climatic Research and continues to serve as Associate Director. His research uses computer-based models of earth’s climate to investigate the causes of climate change in the geologic past, as well as the role of humans in causing climate changes in the future. His studies have also helped clarify the interactions and feedback linkages between atmosphere, ocean, land and vegetation.

    Revelle did pioneering work on the carbon dioxide balance in the oceans and its effect on climate, fostered new observations of the oceans, atmosphere, and earth’s interior, and studied human population growth and global food and water supplies. Almost fifty years ago, Revelle and Suess showed that the oceans could not absorb carbon dioxide as rapidly as humans were releasing it and wrote the oft-quoted words: “Human beings are now carrying out a large-scale geophysical experiment”.
    Photos.