Professor
College of Letters & Science | Department of Geography and Center for Climatic Research
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
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 site-based fieldwork to helping lead and build global-scale community databases. He and his wife Sarah have lived in Wisconsin since 2004 and have raised their kids here
they enjoy kayaking, dog-walking, and board-gaming. More information can be found at www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/williams/lab/ or via Twitter @IceAgeEcologist
Talks:
- Climate Science and Solutions: An Overview
- Life and Death of the Mammoths on St. Paul Island, Alaska