Learn with students and faculty from UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Whitewater. Spring 2022: “Environmental and Health Effects of Water Pollution” Two-credit, online course meets synchronously Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. The course number at UWM is FRSHWTR190. What you will learn: Impacts… Read More

Integrating Freshwater Science and Sustainability in a rapidly changing ecological corridor, Yucatán Peninsula Laguna Bacalar is on the cusp of becoming one of the most threatened lakes in the world. An international research experience through UW-Milwaukee and NSF provides an… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, says cities on the Great Lakes such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland will have to adapt to the extreme highs and lows caused by climate change. She was featured on… Read More

Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences, talked with WUWM environmental reporter Susan Bence about the vision she lays out in a new book called “Prosperity In The Fossil Free Economy.” The book… Read More

Join us to talk freshwater sciences! Please join us for the Fall 2021 Colloquia in Freshwater Sciences. Events are open to the public and free to attend. No advance registration required. All presentations are 5-5:50 p.m. central time and will… Read More

Becky Curtis has always been interested in the environment and how societies interact with and impact nature. This fall she will wrap up her doctoral work at UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences and embark on the next step of her… Read More

Tyler Kunze never anticipated a career as a water scientist. Yet in May, he became the first student to earn a bachelor’s degree in water science from UW-Green Bay. He’s now a graduate student in UW-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences…. Read More

The School of Freshwater Sciences (SFS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is proud to announce the appointment of Professor Rebecca Klaper as vice dean of the school. Klaper was one of the founding faculty of the school and has… Read More

The Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences has hired its first postdoc water policy specialists: Misbah Husain and Sarah Martinez. Both are Sea Grant UW Water Science-Policy Fellows. During their year-long appointments, Husain… Read More

Harvey Bootsma’s connections to Africa run deep, having studied the waters and fish of Lake Malawi for years. Early in his career, he was the first director of the Lake Malawi National Park, and a former student of Bootsma’s now… Read More