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Seed Grants
The CPEP Seed Grants support new and innovative directions in climate-related research, that further the mission of CCR to investigate the fundamental operations of the climate system and better understand the impacts and opportunities posed by climate change to economic, societal, and environmental systems.
2019 seed grants
Characterizing and Modeling Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Hazards Using the Extreme Rainfall Multiplierspan>
Daniel Wright, Assistant Professor
Capacity Building for a Wisconsin Climate Education Program
Rose Pertzborn, Outreach Program Manager & Michael Notaro, Senior Scientist
Documenting the University of Wisconsin Probabilistic Downscaling (UWPD) Dataset
Dave Lorenz, Associate Scientist
Toward Resolving the Holocene Climate Conundrum: A Global Data-Model Evaluation and Synthesis
Shaun Marcott, Assistant Professor & Feng He, Associate Scientist
2018 seed grants
Assessing marine Ice Sheet Instability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with MPAS-Land-Ice Model
Feng He, Associate Scientist
Mechanisms and Environmental Regulators of the Cross-Equatorial Impacts of East Asian Cold Air Outbreaks on the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon
Michael Notaro, Senior Scientist
Investigating the Causal Linkage Between the Arctic Amplification and the Mid-Latitudes Extreme Events: Setting up a Data-Driven Machine Learning System
Fuyao Wang, Assistant Researcher
2017 seed grants
Characterizing Arctic Sea Ice Properties Using APP-X Data and CESM-LE Based Coupled Data Assimilation System
Shu Wu, Assistant Researcher
Evaluation of Biases Related to Snow Processes: In Reanalyses and Climate Models, Globally on Mountainous Regions
Anne Sophie Daloz, Assistant Researcher
Integrating Hydrologic and Economic Models to Manage Depleting Water in Central Sands Wisconsin
Ankur Desai, Professor
Automated Image Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques to Transform Data Collection for Climate History
Sara Hotchkiss, Professor
2016 seed grants
Index Insurance as a Climate Risk Management Tool
Paul Block, Assistant Professor
Onset and retreat of glacial permafrost at Cave of the Mounds, WI
Ian Orland
Explore the Impact of Assimilating Ocean Salinity Data on Climate Simulation in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Data Assimilation System
Shu Wu
Improving Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction of Flash Droughts over the Central U.S. Through Understanding Land-Air Interactions
Yafang Zhong
2015 seed grants
Does northern hemisphere snow cover influence mid-latitude cyclone trajectories? Weather system implications for a changing climate.
Ankur Desai, Professor
Exploring Paleo Climate Data Assimilation of Water Isotopes
Zhengyu Liu
Regional pCO2 distribution in CMIP5: Connections to ocean circulation?
Galen McKinley, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
High-resolution simulation of precipitation (WRF, 2 km)
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Paleo-Proxy in the North Atlantic Ocean During the Last Glacial Period
Shaun Marcott
2014 seed grants
Biogeochemical impacts of mussel invasions
Galen McKinley, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Integrated index to characterize extreme events
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
Middle Eastern Dust Storm Variability
Michael Notaro, CCR Associate Director, Senior Scientist
Biogeochemical impacts of Asian dust flux to Hawaiian Forests and Agroecosystems
Sara Hotchkiss, Botany Professor
2013 seed grants
The impacts of changing winter conditions on trailing edge species in Wisconsin
Ben Zuckerberg, Assistant Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Michael Notaro, CCR Associate Director, Senior Scientist
Helping science teachers be better judges of climate science credibility
Noah Feinstein, Assistant Professor
Developing an integrated index to characterize extreme weather
Steve Vavrus, Senior Scientist
Battling impacts of mussel invasion and climate change on Lake Michigan physics
Val Bennington, Honorary Associate, Fellow
Understanding the climate variability of global monsoons through improving interpretation of cave speleothem δ18O records
Guangshan Chen, Assistant Scientist
2012 seed grants
Implications of a Warming Winter on Resident Bird Populations in the Upper Midwest
Ben Zuckerberg, Assistant Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
What are the biogeochemical consequences of declining ice cover and increasing land use for lakes?
Ankur Desai, Professor
Can the model to predict the future changes of hydrological cycle reproduce its past?
Feng He, CCR Assistant Scientist Professor
Monitoring the Ecological Sensitivity of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Droughts
Michael Notaro, CCR Associate Director, Senior Scientist