Geospatial skills transcend traditional professional boundaries. They can be applied to solving humanitarian challenges as they can to solving biodiversity challenges. Geospatial tools help decision makers apply data to help solve complex problems. Whether the …
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A Zeal for Zambia
Lend Nelson Institute PhD student Colleen Henegan your ear, and she’ll tell you all about her time in Zambia, a landlocked country in the south of Africa. As Henegan recounts the months she spent researching, …
Boots on the Sand
Nicole Leotaud has dedicated her career to conserving her Caribbean home by relying on its greatest resource: people. On the north coast of Trinidad, there’s a long, remote stretch of beach. Unlike most of island’s …
Nelson Around the World
Although the Nelson Institute is housed within Science Hall at 550 North Park Street, our faculty, students, and alumni are sharing our mission and conducting research internationally. From partnering with world-renowned organizations to helping small tribal …
Nelson Institute students participate in global study on urban environmental change and adaptation
Nelson Institute students and researchers participated in a global study investigating the impact of urbanization on biological evolution. This novel study led by James Santangelo, Marc Johnson, and Rob Ness at the University of Toronto, …
Nelson Institute affiliate is lead author on UN climate report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a report urging a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Gregory Nemet, a Nelson Institute affiliate and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School …
Nelson Institute affiliates discuss the future of fossil fuels on WPR
Nelson Institute affiliate and La Follette School of Public Affairs Professor Greg Nemet and Nelson Institute affiliate and Professor, Jonathan Patz are featured in a Wisconsin Public Radio story discussing the future of energy. This …
The Pathway Forward: How companies, NGOs, and scientists are collaborating to help save the Amazon
Explore how a new collaboration is helping to address deforestation and its links to meat and leather supply chains during the Sustainable Success Lecture on February 24, 2022, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. CT. Register today to …
Gregg Mitman’s new book highlights land use, racial injustice, and America’s shared history with Liberia
Nearly 6,000 miles separates the United States and the West African country of Liberia, but their histories are forever intertwined. In fact, Nelson Institute affiliate Gregg Mitman, who also serves as the Vilas Research and …
UW-Madison and IIASA partner on environmental policy projects
After more than 40 years of collaboration, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) are officially partnering on a variety of policy-relevant projects related to energy, climate, air quality, …