View Presentations from the 2026 SAGE-CCR Lightning Talks

Faculty, scientists, and students of the Center for Climatic Research (CCR) and Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) come together each year to share their latest research and build cross-center collaborations. This year’s event took place on March 12 at the Enzyme Institute building on the UW-Madison campus.

The recording includes the following presentations (with timestamps):

  • (2:15) Ardiantiono (SAGE), “The Cost of Delay: Quantifying the Information Loss for Biodiversity Monitoring Across Biomes”
  • (8:45) Emily Mather (CCR), “I Look at Panels from Both Sides Now: A Study of Utility Scale Solar as Both Microclimate and Land Surface”
  • (16:40) Carol Barford and Andrew Ruis (SAGE), “Truthy Models for Localized Learning about Climate Change Adaptation”
  • (25:50) Riley Hayes (CCR), “Reconstruction of Land Cover in North America Since the Last Glacial Maximum: A Comparison of Quantitative Approaches”
  • (32:49) Tracey Holloway (SAGE), “Climate Data to Support Industry Innovation”
  • (40:50) Jack Williams (CCR), “Mapping the Edge: Identifying Species Truncated Niches”
  • (48:30) Erin Duke (CCR), “’Goldilocks Days’ as a Novel Characterization of Climate”
  • (55:35) Matt Christie (SAGE), “How Abstraction Empowers: An Organizing Principle for Maintainable Software”
  • (1:06:08) Joel Ferguson (CCR), “Factor Markets as Climate Adaptation:  Evidence from Minnesota and Wisconsin Farmland Transactions”
  • (1:16:03) Lucas Palomino (SAGE), “Where Cows Shouldn’t Be: Detecting Cattle in Embargoed Areas of the Brazilian Amazon”
  • (1:23:39) Vedaa Vandavasi (SAGE), “Comparing Air Quality and Climate Co-Benefits for Uncontrolled Power Plants in the United States”
  • (1:29:35) Evan Meeker (CCR), “Climate Predictability from Seasonal to Decadal Timescales”
  • (1:36:02) Nick Mailloux (SAGE), “Air Quality and Health Effects of U.S. Energy Transitions”
  • (1:43:46) Paul Buchmann (CCR), “Causes of Flooding on Wisconsin’s Rock River”