"Helping Plants Adapt to Climate Change: Lessons from the Last Ice Age": Badger Talk in Madison, WI

This is a free, in-person event hosted by the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society on October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM CDT. No registration necessary for this event. To watch or listen to this talk virtually, please visit this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86387565125

Discover how to help plants adapt to climate change and learn about the last Ice Age!

John (Jack) Williams is Professor in Geography and a former director of the Center for Climatic Research at UW-Madison. He studies climate change and ecosystem responses to changing climates, using the end of the last ice age as a model system for understanding the effects of large global rises in temperature. His work ranges from fieldwork and coring lakes to helping lead and build global-scale community databases. He has lived in Wisconsin since 2004 and has raised his family here; he enjoys kayaking, pickleball, running with his dog, and board-gaming. Dr. Williams is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and Kellett Fellow at UW-Madison. More information can be found at www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/williams/lab/ or via Twitter @IceAgeEcologist

You may also like the following events from Badger Talks:

• This Friday, 3rd October, 08:00 pm, Universe in the Park: In-person Badger Talk at Kettle Moraine State Forest, Hartford, WI in Hartford
• Next Monday, 6th October, 10:00 am, "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: The Ship, The Storm, The Song": In-Person Badger Talk in La Crosse in La Crosse
• Next Tuesday, 7th October, 01:00 pm, "20,000 years in the blink of an eye..." In-person Badger Talk in Mt. Horeb, WI in Mount Horeb

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