Center for Water Policy Director Melissa Scanlan was recently featured on the Water Talk podcast to discuss data centers. Professor Scanlan explained how data centers use water, how data centers’ growing prevalence in the Great Lakes region is occurring without …
Center for Water Policy Director and Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair and Professor Melissa Scanlan was featured in a 620 WTMJ radio segment and news article talking about data centers. In it, she suggests ways to overcome fragmented information on the …
Data centers require massive volumes of water to operate, and the growing use of artificial intelligence means more of these centers are popping up in water-abundant regions such as the Great Lakes. However, despite their access to the vast bodies …
In a recent article for The Conversation, Peyton McCauley, Water Policy Specialist, and Professor Melissa Scanlan, Director, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center for Water Policy examined the growing water demands of data centers driven by artificial intelligence, and why transparency and …
The historic flooding that took place overnight on Saturday, August 9 affected many in the Milwaukee area and surrounding region. With some areas hit harder than others, Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency and deployed the National Guard …
Associate dean and professor Harvey Bootsma and his lab are a small team that’s dedicated to a monumental task: finding a way to kill invasive quagga mussels that blanket the lake bottom and starve whitefish to death. Whitefish face collapse …
Harvey Bootsma‘s lab has been working to combat the invasive quagga mussels, despite inadequate funding for research.
Lake Michigan’s rising temperatures could be changing the taste of your tap water. Water treatment officials and freshwater scientists say the changes are natural and the water remains safe to drink despite seasonal taste and odor differences. Racine County residents …
The work of Harvey Bootsma’s lab to remove invasive mussels from Lake Michigan was referenced in a Wisconsin Public Radio article on rejuvenating the whitefish population in Lake Michigan. The commercial harvest of the fish has declined nearly 90 percent …
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 …
