Radio Delfin Featured Atmo Sci Professor Kahl and Students

Professor Jon Kahl and his UWinteriM SFS Atmospheric Science study abroad students were featured on the Radio Delfin social media post and radio broadcast. Radio Delfin is the campus radio station at University of Carmen, Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico. …

City of Milwaukee Health Department Program Started at SFS

Press release from the City of Milwaukee Health Department on the transfer of the wastewater monitoring program that started here at the School of Freshwater Sciences. SFS helped train the Milwaukee Health Department and then transferred the twice weekly surveillance …

Urban Milwaukee Article Features SFS Fisheries Biologist Houghton

Jeff Houghton, Fisheries Biologist at the School of Freshwater Sciences, was featured in an article written by Michael Timm, an SFS alumnus who received his master’s degree in 2013. The article in Urban Milwaukee looks at the how the Kletzsch …

Spectrum News Features Story on New Research Vessel at UWM

Captain Max Morgan, student Wilson Tarpey, and Professor Harvey Bootsma were interviewed by Spectrum News in an article about the School of Freshwater Sciences progress in funding a new research vessel. The new research vessel will be named the Maggi …

WUWM 89.7 FM interviews School of Freshwater Sciences Graduate Student

UWM School of Freshwater Sciences graduate student Echo was interviewed by Xcaret Nuñez at WUWM 89.7 FM about educating the next generation in freshwater conservation. Listen as Mermaid Echo shares how and why they started “mermaiding”, deciding to pursue a …

Waples Lab Heads Out on the Neeskay for Research

Dawn Patrol! Graduate students Rachel Smith and Gage Hunter head out to study the chemistry of polonium-210 in deep Lake Michigan water today. Rachel and Gage, graduate students in Professor Jim Waples’ lab, were also featured on WUWM back in …

Announcement of Milwaukee Estuary Cleanup Funding

WUWM 89.7 FM article covers the October 12th press conference at Discovery World which brought big news about funding for cleaning up the Milwaukee Estuary. UWM School of Freshwater Sciences graduate students were invited to attend, and one of our …