John W. Willams | Understanding Climate Change | Viterbo Ethics

John (Jack) Williams is the Director of the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research and Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Williams’ research focuses on the responses of plant species and communities to past and future climate change, with an emphasis on the communities and climates of the last deglaciation as a model system for understanding 21st-century climate change. Awards include the Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America, the Phil Certain Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Wisconsin, and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship from the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.