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Online Tracker Measures The Start of Spring

Jon Strelecki
Tom Luljak and Mark Schwartz

A new online tracker that allows you to watch the start of spring is based on the work of a UWM climatologist.

Mark Schwartz developed the spring indices, which measure relationships between temperature and plant growth.

On UWM Today, he explains how the indices can be used in agriculture, wildfire prevention and gardening.​

Tom Luljak hosted UWM Today on WUWM for more than two decades and is the inaugural host of Curious Campus.