The Center for Water Policy has launched a search for an Assistant Director. This is a full-time, non-teaching academic staff position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. The application deadline is June 16, 2025. The Assistant Director supports the Director of …
“We are creating new land here in the heart of the city—in the lake. When it’s finished, years from now, it will become lakefront land. So the question is: what should it be as part of the city? A port …
As coastal land manipulation and flooding increase along Wisconsin’s Great Lakes regions, two graduate student teams at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences have delivered a set of recommendations to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) aimed at building long-term …
Watch the recorded webinar here! Water Policy Specialist Peyton McCauley of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences recently delivered a timely and eye-opening lecture titled “The Hidden Environmental Costs of Data Centers …
Watch the recorded webinar here. The Center for Water Policy hosted an Earth Day webinar featuring James Wasley, Professor at UW-Milwaukee and 2024-2025 Water Policy Scholar. He presented his research on the possible future uses of the Dredged Material Disposal Facility at the Port of …
The lake sturgeon population in the Great Lakes has dropped to less than 1% of historic numbers, but dedicated efforts are underway to change that from organizations like Milwaukee Riverkeeper, the Deng Aquaculture Lab at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences, …
Interim Assistant Director Cora Sutherland was quoted by the Toledo Blade’s Tom Henry in a piece about Great Lakes offshore wind (GLOW). Cora presented on the Center for Water Policy’s research and a recent NSF-funded workshop at the Freshwater Collaborative …
Experience “Working for the Water, Working for Each Other,” an art exhibition that flows with purpose and showcases visible metaphors for public access, water pollution, infrastructure, and energy systems that impact our waters. Melanie Ariens (UWM BFA, Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking, …
The Center for Water Policy is seeking candidates for a two-year funded Water Policy and Science Communications Graduate Student Research Fellowship, while earning a master’s degree from the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. To be considered for the Fellowship, the student must be …
The Center for Water Policy enters an exciting phase as it welcomes its new staff. Emma Ehrlich and Peyton McCauley make up the Center’s fourth cohort of postdoctoral Water Policy Specialists through the Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows Program. …
