Bootsma and Lemke provide interesting facts about Lake Michigan
Associate dean and professor Harvey Bootsma along with affiliate professor Ashley Lemke contributed facts about Lake Michigan for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Monitoring change on Wisconsin’s Shipwreck Coast
Research Specialist Jessie Grow was featured in a recent Environmental Monitor article on the development of National Marine Sanctuary’s “Shipwreck Sentinel” buoy. Grow is part of a collaborative effort by UWM-SFS and NOAA working on the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast Sentinel …
Diving deep: high school students compete in 8th annual underwater robot competition
For the eighth year, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted the Southeast Wisconsin Regional SeaPerch Competition. The future of STEM was on display at the Klotsche Center pool on Sunday, March 15. This event brought together 26 teams from across the state …
Center for Water Policy director featured on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel data centers panel
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was a featured expert on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Town Hall February 23rd panel on water use by AI-data centers at Turner Hall Ballroom. Professor Scanlan …
Freshwater Sciences alum featured in New York Times for methane gas in wetlands research
Gage Hunter, a Freshwater Sciences alum, is featured in this article from The New York Times. Gage is now pursuing a PhD at LSU and is doing research on methane gas and how it’s leading to climate warming in wetlands.
Center for Water Policy quoted in Washington Post story
Center for Water Policy Director, Professor, and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair Melissa Scanlan was quoted in a Washington Post article examining a recent report from the United Nations University, the U.N.’s research arm, that finds climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the …
Center for Water Policy’s work on abandoned boats cited in Bailey’s Harbor tug boat fate
Door County Knock recently published an article on the Donny S., a 143-foot tug boat that is sitting abandoned in northeast Bailey’s Harbor. It’s fate remains unknown. A current inspection and evaluation of the boat’s environmental condition and contents, by …
Uncovering data center water usage
Professor and Director of UWM’s Center for Water Policy, Melissa Scanlan, talks about many ways data centers use great amounts of water with Down To Earth.
Weighing in on Lake Michigan public beach access
Where can the public walk along Lake Michigan? That’s the question at hand for the recent municipal court trial in Shorewood where a man was accused of trespassing after taking a route north of Atwater Beach. He’s contesting the $313 …
CWP talks importance of protecting Wisconsin’s wetlands
Tressie Kamp, Assistant Director of UWM’s Center for Water Policy, was recently quoted in a Great Lakes Now article on Wisconsin’s wetlands. “In southeast Wisconsin in particular, this issue exemplifies how the protection or lack of protection in an area …