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 …
Graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences — Joe McCormack, Evelyn Grimm, and Cami Armendariz — were recently featured on WUWM 89.7 FM – Milwaukee’s NPR for their work addressing flood risks and resilience in Milwaukee. …
“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 …
