In 2025, the Water Policy Program at the UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences continued its multidisciplinary research on the most urgent freshwater policy challenges. Our work—featured in academic articles, policy briefs, and other reports—examines a broad set of issues shaping …
Water Policy and Science Communications Graduate Student Research Fellowship 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 …
Center for Water Policy Assistant Director Tressie Kamp was featured in a “Circle of Blue” article on wetlands and the 2025 1,000-year flood in Milwaukee, WI. The article examines how wetlands, “nature’s kidneys,” mitigate flood-related property damage after heavy rain events. The article also highlights wetland restoration sites around southeastern Wisconsin …
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 …
