Last weekend, Dan Egan, Center for Water Policy journalist in residence, traveled to Canandaigua, NY to speak to residents of the finger lakes about the threats facing fresh water. Egan’s talk focused on phosphorus and toxic algal blooms, which are …
? Explore how the School of Freshwater Sciences has helped transform and continues to influence Milwaukee’s relationship with its harbor and the Great Lakes in the Center’s new short video. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences is an anchor in Milwaukee’s …
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor & Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent NPR article examining the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States and the accompanying environmental challenges. The article highlights …
Data centers are rapidly developing across the country to meet demands for artificial intelligence, data storage, and cloud computing. But their environmental impact, especially regarding water use, is largely obscured from public view. That’s the subject of the Center for …
A new Chicago Tribune article highlights how the rapid growth of data centers across the Great Lakes region could strain already finite water resources. Data centers use enormous volumes of water to keep servers cool, and the rise of artificial …
The Center for Water Policy is excited to welcome Anna Watson and Emilie Washer, who make up the Center’s fifth cohort of postdoctoral water policy specialists through the Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows Program. Will Matuska also joins the …
Abandoned boats are being left on the shores of Wisconsin’s rivers and lakes. Not only are these boats difficult and expensive to remove, but it can be unclear who is responsible for removing them when the owner will not or …
CWP Water Policy Scholar (2024-2025) and affiliated faculty at the School of Freshwater Sciences James Wasley wrote an opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about celebrating the final stages of a 50-year process to restore Milwaukee’s rivers. In …
The Great Lakes water levels fluctuate over a variety of time scales. One way to protect homes and other structures located along the coasts of the Great Lakes from the dangers of fluctuating water levels, floods, waves, and erosion is …
Cora Sutherland, Interim Assistant Director, and Professor Melissa Scanlan, Director, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy recently explored how offshore wind in the Great Lakes could meet regional electricity needs – and why now is the time …
