UWM Center for Water Policy has posted their Water Policy Publications 2024 Report. This report, which can be downloaded from their website, gives us a snapshot of the important work the faculty, researchers and students have done this past year. …
We had a very successful joint event with Harbor Fest, Sturgeon Fest, and Doors Open Milwaukee on September 29th which brought over 1,600 people to enjoy our 19 stations of information and activities! Visitors were able to learn about microbial …
The long-running Atmospheric Science study abroad program “Mexico: Air Pollution and Ancient Cultures” will again be offered in UWinteriM 2025. This faculty-led, short-term study abroad program takes students on a journey to world-famous sites across five cities in Mexico. Led by Professor …
UWM Distinguished Professor Dr. Paul Roebber, of the Atmospheric Science Program, has been named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)! Election to the grade of Fellow serves as recognition of outstanding contributions to advance the atmospheric and related …
Brown rivers: Why do the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic Rivers have a brownish tint? That is the topic for an interview by WISN 12 News Meteorologist Gino Recchia with Dr. Russell Cuhel, Senior Scientist at UWM School of Freshwater Sciences. Dr. …
Professor Jon Kahl, Undergraduate Kacper Zaprzalka, and Graduate student Danica Brezovar have published a new paper in Weather and Forecasting (WAF), a journal of the American Meteorological Society. The paper is titled: Investigating the potential of using mixdown altitudes to …
UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences scientists Dr. Carmen Aguilar and Dr. Russell Cuhel are studying the impact of less ice coverage on Lake Michigan. The research being done on algae is helping to understand how the ecosystem of the Great …
The Kohler Trust for Clean Water has given the UWM Foundation $1.3 million toward construction of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences’ state-of-the-art Research Vessel Maggi Sue. The vessel will be the most sophisticated floating research platform on …
WUWM 89.7 interviewed School of Freshwater Sciences Professors Paul Roebber and Harvey Bootsma for their series discussing the impacts of warmer winters on the environment. The show “Shrinking ice cover, warmer water: How will Lake Michigan and its food web …
UWM School of Freshwater Senior Scientists Carmen Aguilar-Diaz and Russell Cuhel were interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio. Aguilar and Cuhel discussed how reduced ice can pose both negative and positive effects.
