Dr. Ben Peterson’s lab stepped aboard the R/V Neeskay and made the trip to Georgian Bay in Lake Huron to conduct research on mercury contamination, with a specific interest in how the quagga mussels are impacting mercury fate and transport …
Melissa Schussman and Maria Steadmon, along with Dr. McLellan were interviewed and their work was featured in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article. On a late July afternoon, with temperatures pushing 90 degrees, about 100 beachgoers spread across the sand and …
Associate dean and professor Harvey Bootsma along with affiliate professor Ashley Lemke contributed facts about Lake Michigan for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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 …
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, 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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.
